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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
-
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the 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.
-
I love Cameron Diaz, and 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.
-
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his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible.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.
-
Money is a kind of 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Think your own thoughts.
-
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
-
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
-
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.
-
I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
-
I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.
-
I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.
-
I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.
-
Everybody in the industry thinks I'm the crazy person.
-
If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
-
I can give you a 'Selfish,' and I can still come give you, like, a 'Jealous.' I'm coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I've been in with females. You just never know; I'm just coming different.
-
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.
