Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.Angela Duckworth
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When I go to work, I don't want to make depressing, gritty, urban stories that are depressing to watch. I want to give people something to enjoy. When people think I'm a control freak and an ogre - which I am - it's only because I want my work to be accessible and Everyman, in a way.Ricky Gervais
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I have been known to do a lot of glamorous, glossy songs in A-lister set-ups. This was unlike that. 'Blackmail' is a gritty film, so the song is also very different from what I have done before.Urmila Matondkar
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I'm hungry for a cold and mean character. I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie - someone really scary.Jessica Brown Findlay
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'Defenders' seems to have a really gritty, hard, uncomplicated vibe about it. Somehow, we made everything sound stronger and more precise than on 'Screaming Vengeance' through Tom Allom's amazing mixing skills.Rob Halford
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At our house we have come to conclude that building and strengthening character will require extreme measures and the intentional pursuit of gritty work experiences.Ben Sasse
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You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.Ashley Walters
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I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.Gillian Armstrong
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The people I don't like to work with are people like me. I need people who can complement my skill set, people who can do the nitty gritty with me.Mark Cuban
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I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books marketed under the chick-lit umbrella that are so honest, clever and gritty that I've wanted to give up writing and paint walls instead.Jojo Moyes
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And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.Brittany Murphy
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I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started writing my own songs kind of came out naturally, and it created this new sound.Aubrie Sellers
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It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.John Turturro
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During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.Hyun Bin
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My voice kept going; I just couldn't work out what the hell was happening. I kept trying to have voice rest, or take more vitamins. It was months and months, and it actually stopped me from working because it sounded so awful. It wasn't a nice husk, it was a horrendous, gravelly, gritty voice to listen to.Fearne Cotton
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.Laura Vandervoort
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We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.Beth Ditto
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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something.Angela Duckworth
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They call me the Magic Man because I'm a classy fighter, a master of my craft, a good-looking Italian kid from Brooklyn who came through a dark and gritty life to find something magical.Paulie Malignaggi
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I'm doing something called 'Olivia Twisted,' that will start next year. There may be something in between, but right now, that's the one that I'm slated to do next year. That's a very ultra-modern version of 'Oliver Twist,' and it's female-driven. It's an action film, and it's kind of dark and gritty.Ashley Greene
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.Kanye West
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I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.Frank Ocean
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Liberals want to live downtown. All over America - in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown - there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.P. J. O'Rourke
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It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.Cary Fukunaga
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The thing I really love about 'Saturday Night Fever' is that the movie is a gritty drama. Most people just remember the amazing, whimsical fantasy dance scenes, but then, when you watch it again, it's raw.Max Joseph
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.Karen Armstrong
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From the start, the promise of Jurgen Klinsmann as manager of the U.S. men's national team was revolution: gritty, plodding American soccer would give way to attacking flair; the parade of journeymen would end; an era of skilled stylists would begin.Franklin Foer
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Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.Angela Duckworth
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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.Brendan Gleeson
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I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.Meghan Markle
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The movies I like watching the most are these sort of cinema verite, handheld films where you really get gritty with people. But I also have this strange affinity for old Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies and things that sort of pop out where you see the frames, where you have these 2D animation moments and split-screens and things like that.James Gunn
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I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.Lydia Millet
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Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.Philippa Gregory
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'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I'm drawn to anything, it would be the writing. Choosing a project is an organic process where I'm taken in by the character and storyline, not the genre, whether fantasy or gritty and raw.Rose Leslie
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I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.Adrian Dunbar
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One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they're not just in love for a day or a week. People who are really gritty - they're still interested.Angela Duckworth
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Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.Isabella Bird
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Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.Sharon Needles
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As PM, you have got to do everything from chairing the Cabinet to ceremonial things. You have also got to do the nitty gritty. I do get stuck into the detail.David Cameron
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My first movie, 'Thirteen,' and it was very real - almost too real. It was very gritty, with raw human emotion. I'd love to do something like that again.Catherine Hardwicke
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I hope to make an impact not only on the field, in the community, in the locker room. But on the field, catching the ball, returns, running the ball, getting the tough gritty yards, being able to make those special plays and being a great teammate, that's what I hope to have.Saquon Barkley
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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.Maria Semple
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I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?Jesse Kellerman
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.Mary E. Pearson
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Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.Andre Balazs
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I feel like when you do things with such a small budget, it actually makes you be more creative... and allows you to concentrate more on the story and the characters. I think that there is something about dirty, gritty and raw filmmaking that makes it feel a little more natural and makes it easier to connect with the action.Oren Peli
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