Carson Grant Quotes
When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.Carson Grant
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright -
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
Ian Hislop -
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May -
There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
Adam Lambert -
I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang -
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
Ioan Gruffudd
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It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
Oliver Tambo -
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde -
These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
Nana Mouskouri -
I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
Dana Carvey
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To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.
Gail Collins -
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
Eamon de Valera -
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
Damon Knight -
I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
Oskar Kokoschka -
The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
Gaston Bachelard
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Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.
Ellen Key -
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
Rachel Carson -
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
Gene Luen Yang -
When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.
Daniel Hudson -
When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.
Carson Grant