Lee Grant Quotes

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

Lee Grant

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Moments
  • Thought

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.

  

  Randee Heller
  • House
  • Waiting
  • See

• What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Horse

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the years, more attentive, more unrelenting, expectant and ready, as though he still had to make up his mind about most things and must not disregard anything.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Age

• The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Truth

• While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Honesty

• In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • World
  • Powerful
  • English

• I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Different
  • Done

• Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

  

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • History

• I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Music
  • Literature

• Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Difference
  • Opportunities
  • Succeed

• My daughters are my Picassos.

  

  Neneh Cherry

• I thought all those channels on cable TV were really cool.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Cool

• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Argument
  • Soup
  • Homeopathic

• I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

  

  Lee Grant