Grant Shapps Quotes

Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything!

Grant Shapps

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Artist

• The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Game
  • Preparation

• So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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  • World
  • Work

• Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes

• Democratic, Republican members of Congress get along fine. But what you have is this institutional Hatfield and McCoy sentiment coming from our constituents, where the base of both sides doesn't want people to get along. But the majority of Americans, I feel, the majority, they are in the middle. They actually do want both sides to get together.

  

  Jared Polis
  • People
  • Together

• My favorite movies are movies from the '70s, like 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Dog Day Afternoon' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and to me, 'Hereditary' seemed like it fit in with those movies, and it was just horrifying. It seemed like it took the things that I love about movies and really fleshed out characters.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Dog
  • Cowboy

• The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Movie
  • High
  • Celebrity

• If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

  

  Allan Savory
  • People
  • Society
  • Deep

• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Passion
  • Rain

• It takes me ages to write stuff.

  

  Chris Lilley

• What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Up
  • Good
  • Women

• Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Movie
  • Single

• I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Control

• It has been my experience that work on the screen clarifies stage portrayals and vice versa. You learn to make your face express more in making movies, and in working for the theater you have a sense of greater freedom.

  

  Fredric March
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

  

  Burt Lancaster

• The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Dad
  • Health
  • Pieces

• This is a big year not just for me but for everybody. If we have the same kind of year as last year, a lot of us won't be here.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Year

• Because of Diamond, I have had to begin much of the work afresh. I will not, however, rid myself of her, nor even punish her. She knew not what she was doing, and that which she did was for my protection and for love of my person. Her place remains at my side or against my feet when I lie abed.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Work
  • Diamond
  • Afresh

• Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything!

  

  Grant Shapps
  • Work
  • Government
  • Communities