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.
Quotes to Explore
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I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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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.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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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.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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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.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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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.
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Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.
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I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite.
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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
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The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
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Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
