Adam Grant Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
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I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether it's a man or a woman.
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One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
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I've been joking that if Madonna taught us anything, you've got to reinvent yourself. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances. I've tried to take a chance with every film I've done - I've never done it the easy way, and I think that's because that's what excites me, is making as big a mountain as I can in front of me, and just trying to mount it.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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People care about performance and results above all else.
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My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!
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Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
