Lee Grant Quotes

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

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• Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Art
  • Place

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Life
  • You
  • Actor

• Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Powerful

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • American
  • Dark
  • Happiness

• No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Passion

• Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Life
  • Son
  • Ignorance

• I never worked in an office in my life.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Never
  • My Life

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Limits

• Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Character
  • Think

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

  

  John Conyers
  • Done
  • War
  • Support

• I was always intrigued when I was growing up, and then in engineering school, with the idea of a perpetual machine. I think of the Wal-Mart culture as that.

  

  Mike Duke
  • School
  • Culture
  • Growing

• As a Jewish thinker, I don't think of myself in relationship to the dominant culture's religion.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Relationship
  • Religion
  • Jewish

• When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

  

  Lee Grant
  • Life
  • American
  • Journey