Susannah Grant Quotes

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

Susannah Grant

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Want
  • Never
  • Box

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Account

• In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Interest
  • Duty
  • Less

• I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Down

• I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Family
  • Control
  • Better

• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Character
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Going

• I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

  

  David Liss

• I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Thinking

• I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

  

  Luis Walter Alvarez
  • Good
  • Bad

• That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I'm not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can't have personal relationships like other people do. I can't spend time on that.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.

  

  Jamie Hewlett Gorillaz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• One of my favourite films is called 'Lacombe Lucien,' directed by Louis Malle. The lead character in that film, like the lead characters in many '70s and '80s films, has a moral ambiguity to him.

  

  Joe Cornish
  • Character
  • Moral

• Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

  

  Wes Moore
  • Thinking
  • Helping
  • Difficult

• Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.

  

  Susannah Grant
  • Important
  • Grow Up
  • Fairytale