Holliday Grainger Quotes

I auditioned for a musical, and I can't sing. It was a kid's film musical, not a stage show, so I thought I could get away with it.

Holliday Grainger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 27, 1988

Topics

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I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

Jimmy Iovine

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I believe we live in a positive sum world and wealth isn't just taken or moved around; it's mostly created.

Joe Lonsdale

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Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

Maurice Sendak

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When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.

Jeff Vandermeer

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From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Jean Piaget

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Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.'

John Ridley

LoveWritingProcessEnjoyYouKnow

It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Sophie Turner

HappyDoingYouBackDarkNice

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

LivingMattersRightly

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

Mo Yan

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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Judith Butler

TogetherWhateverPointStayNetwork

I was six years old before I realized that there was something wrong with me... But I did have this crooked left leg, and my left foot was turned inward.

Wilma Rudolph

MeWrongOldYearsLeftSomething

When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.

William M. Daley

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