Jennifer Grant Quotes

I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

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• I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Heart
  • Home

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Something
  • More
  • Face

• My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Love
  • Food
  • Justice

• The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Done
  • Today

• One of the things that's making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Organization
  • Platform

• My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Business
  • Father
  • Bicycle

• They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• What a mistake rage is ! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Mistake
  • Revenge

• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Commitment

• I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tea

• Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

  

  Maryam D'Abo
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don't have a lot of furniture in our house, so it's really simple. And we're trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don't want to get isolated to do that.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Good

• You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

  

  Martin Naughton
  • Business

• As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Up
  • Society

• Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

  

  Jerry West

• Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

  

  Alden Nowlan
  • American
  • Poverty

• If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Earth
  • Violent
  • Eternal

• Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Requires
  • Reinvent
  • Rethink

• I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.

  

  Jennifer Grant