Kate Grenville Quotes

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

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• I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Home
  • Light
  • Exercise

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Never
  • Old

• The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Important
  • Security
  • Very

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Famous

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Hip Hop
  • Complex

• As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Balance

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Anything
  • Before

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Giving
  • Mean

• Compassion is of little value if it just remains an idea. It must motivate how we respond to others and be reflective in all our thoughts and actions

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Value
  • Thoughts
  • Compassion

• There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Great
  • Live

• Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • World
  • Peace
  • Calm

• Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Me
  • Language