Hugh Grant Quotes

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

Hugh Grant

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 9, 1960

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I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

Joe Namath

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The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

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If you're in Congress, you vote and give speeches. But governors have to make decisions every day, and presidents have to make decisions every day.

Robert J. Bentley

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'The Whole Nine Yards' I liked right away. It was kind of a dark comedy at first. And just the idea of being in a movie with Bruce Willis was pretty exciting.

Matthew Perry

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I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

Ann Wilson

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Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters.

Ann Dowd

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At 17, I dreamed of seeing the world. At 19, I had been around the world and back.

Tony Curtis

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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

Tom Landry

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If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Tom Wolfe

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Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps.

Jonathan Frakes

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I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

Douglas Brunt

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We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

Dean Devlin

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