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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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
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I am very big into superheroes.
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To me, the band is like one of my homes, in fact. It's not like, 'I've got to get out of this band. I've got to go home.' This band is home in a lot of ways. It's my closest friends; it's a place where I really feel comfortable and happy.
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You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
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An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.
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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.
