Holliday Grainger Quotes
As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
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Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.
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Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
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As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
