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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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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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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As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
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I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
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Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
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Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it.
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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.
