Jennifer Grant Quotes
When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I love Disney. I know that some Disney stars want to break out of the Disney mold, but no, if they let me, I would work with Disney until I die.
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Women have different challenges. You have to be willing to put in the hours and work harder.
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I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.
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Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed.
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I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.
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When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.
