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Lee Grant Quotes

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

Lee Grant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: October 31, 1925

Topics

Childhood Racism Fight Night Kind

I think being eclectic is bad when you're just starting out.

Jerry Harrison

Think You Bad Starting Out Just

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

Sloane Crosley

Learning Genius Idiot Body Skills

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

Tom Felton

Love Time Tree Relax I Can Outside

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Roger Bannister

Music Age Doctor Wish Career Acting

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

Mike Singletary

Football Win Winning Want Need Line

I don't think it's realistic to say kids shouldn't watch any TV. I just wish the shows would be better. And that kids would watch less. Get out there and do things, kids! Don't become couch potatoes!

Judy Blume

Think Better Wish Say Become Out

Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block.

Joni Mitchell

Block Chip Dismiss Gershwin

The way I look at it, people pay me to travel. Once we get to the stage, that part is easy.

Dianne Reeves

Travel People Me Easy Look Way

If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.

Denis Norden

Baroque Fax

When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

Chris Cornell

Money People Color Care Take Care

Things we write down are the fragments shored against our ruins. They outlast us, these scraps of words on paper. Like the detritus from the tsunami washing up on the other side of the ocean, writing is what can be salvaged.

Claire Messud

Ocean Words Writing Down Write Side

Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.

Peter Coyote

People Result Uncle Role Model Young