Lee Grant Quotes
After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.
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In a Western, you don't over-explain.
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After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
