Lee Grant Quotes
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.Lee Grant
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
A. J. Jacobs -
Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
Bat for Lashes -
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
Larry Kramer -
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
I am definitely a person of color.
Vin Diesel -
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
J. B. Smoove -
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
Eddie Campbell -
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh -
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
Barney Oliver
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I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.
Barney Frank -
The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
Fernando Torres -
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Ian Mckellen -
I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
Gavin Newsom -
No matter what your age is, you only have now. So it's always about living in the moment and being in the moment... I refuse to let those numbers define me, and I just try to face each day positively.
Christie Brinkley
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Well, Fellini... there is always Fellini.
Louis Malle -
I really think that we changed the chemistry of the team. Sometimes it goes either way. For us it went the wrong way. You know what, I'd rather see this happen at this time of the year. Adversity makes people better.
Bob Hartley -
Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.
Claude Lelouch -
The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
Haley Joel Osment -
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
Lee Grant