Lee Grant Quotes
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?
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Art should never be limited - the beauty of art is that it gives us the freedom to go places where we wouldn't go to in our normal lives. Inside, I'm just so many different people. I go from the pretty girl on the red carpet to the singer at Ozzfest, spitting in the crowd. That's Jada.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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She failed her drivers test. She couldn't get used to the front seat. It took her four lessons to learn to sit up.
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I pretty much always stuck to the most interesting part I could play.
