Lee Grant Quotes
First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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I get bored after I invent something because I hate talking about it every time.
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When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
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I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.
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Our technologies become more complex while we become more simple. They learn about us while we come to know less and less about them. No one person can understand everything going on in an iPhone, much less pervasive systems.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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First of all, the leads aren't the kind of acting work that I like. The parts that are meatier are not the ones that have to have a romance.
