Lee Grant Quotes
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
Quotes to Explore
-
A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
-
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
-
It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
-
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
-
You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
-
My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
-
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
-
For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
-
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
-
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
-
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
-
It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
-
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
-
When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
-
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
-
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
-
To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.
-
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive awareness of oneself as potentially exposed to danger by the simple fact of being visible to others. The obvious defence against such a danger is to make oneself invisible in one way or another.
-
I believe that all men and women will be saved.
-
My parents were pretty cool about letting me listen to whatever I wanted. The only objection might have been playing music too loud.
-
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
-
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
