Holliday Grainger Quotes
True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.
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I've always belonged to the street, and I always will. It's in my DNA.
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It's much harder to lose weight as you get older.
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
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The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.
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I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.
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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
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All things being at God’s disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.
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...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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The only reason I would stay away from a period piece is because sometimes the women are painted in a very stereotypical weakling, wallflower way - that's something I don't want to do. I want to show strength in the women I play, and a journey of some sort.
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When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.
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True love, especially first love, can be so tumultuous and passionate that it feels like a violent journey.
