Lee Grant Quotes

I was 24 when I was blacklisted. I was 36 when I got off the blacklist. How much of a life does an actress have in L.A. past 25? ... I was really scared of having producers know that I was on my way to 40.

Lee Grant

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LifePastKnowWayScaredOff

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

SoulIntelligenceSchoolWorldYou

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

Maya Angelou

FamilyGoodMeBrainBlessedRight

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

John Piper

LifeGodCultureFeelPrioritiesUs

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

Amanda Eliasch

MotherMusicMeGrandmotherSinger

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.

Tracy Reese

FeelingOutfitToo MuchWithoutUp

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Tom Scholz

RememberI CanBuilderInventorEver

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

Rob Gronkowski

GoodFootballTogetherReligionTeam

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

Jonathan Turley

PowerPeopleLibertyUnderstandSeem

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

Donna Lynne Champlin

JobYourselfMeVoiceSomeoneYou

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

Anthony Michael Hall

SuccessSmallThinkLearnFishKid

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

Peter Bart

SocietyFeelGayCozyBecomeMore

I love key lime pie, although it's never made the proper way.

Paula Poundstone

LoveKeyPieWayNeverMade

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