Holliday Grainger Quotes

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

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• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

  Camille Guaty
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Drew Barrymore

• I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Life
  • Book
  • Bible

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Nice
  • Hands

• You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Desire
  • Personality
  • Self

• I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Work
  • Important
  • Job

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• Think your own thoughts.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Thoughts

• The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul

• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Political

• Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Free
  • Focus
  • Fire

• I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Hope

• Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.

  

  Van Jones
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dream

• For me one of the most important things is not feeling like you have to protect yourself if you're with a real friend.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Yourself

• I've always been switching around the show to accommodate the audience, and you know it really makes it a lot more fun for me and keeps it fresh so that I'm not complacent with the same show every night and with every audience.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • Fun
  • Night

• I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

  

  Holliday Grainger
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Selfish