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Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner. -- Kathy Reichs
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochodaâ??s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet itâ??s indelibly her own. -- Dennis Lehane
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of. -- Amy Grant
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures. -- Vera Wang
The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes. -- David Tennant
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. -- Kanye West
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told. -- Aaron Paul
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. -- Art Alexakis
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York. -- Andre Balazs
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
I love getting to bounce around and explore so much. I love Scandinavia. I love Spain. It's so mystical and romantic, yet it's gritty. -- Jason Mraz
Motherhood is nitty and gritty and brutal and wonderful, but everything I read is about the wonderful parts. Sometimes, you're really in the trenches! -- Constance Marie
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
I always like to incorporate one or two chic accessories that contrast with the more gritty look of my daily uniform: a leather jacket and jeans. -- Johan Lindeberg
I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. -- Gloria Steinem
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
Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets. -- Sara Paretsky
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
We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. -- Allan Houston
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I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does. -- Stephanie Szostak
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
I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve. -- Nikki Sixx
Batman Begins' came out and it was really successful, and it had gritty naturalism. And suddenly... I can't tell you how many movies I was pitched where it was, 'We want to do what you did with 'Batman' but with 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' or whatever. -- David S. Goyer
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
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
I would love to do more movies. I'd like to get into some theater, too, if I could, just to learn more. I want to do gritty performances that I'm proud of. It doesn't matter to me if four people see it or millions of people see it, as long as I perform in such a way that people go, 'Wow!' -- Jason Dohring
It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom. -- Vir Das
History at its best is a gritty, dirty business. -- Sara Sheridan
I like my cinema gritty, I like my eggs gritty. -- David Letterman
I like showing the gritty truthful dark side of humanity. -- Jake Busey
Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. -- Pam Houston
I like films that are gritty and hard-hitting and suspenseful. Thrillers, too. -- Domhnall Gleeson
Yeah, you know I don't ever see myself doing a super-gritty, hard-core drama. -- Jenna Fischer
He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player. -- John Muckler
Everywhere I go, I can't wear everything a designer creates. I'm a little more gritty. -- Rick Ross
With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world. -- David Brin
Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time. -- Richard J. Mayer
If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally. -- Kelvin Fletcher
But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!" -- Bill Bailey
I'd love to venture into TV or do some gritty dramas - Guy Ritchie, that kind of thing. -- Shayne Ward
It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces. -- Cary Fukunaga
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life. -- Isobelle Carmody
I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff. -- Meghan Markle
New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty. -- Pharoahe Monch
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that -- Jessica Hagedorn
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another. -- Mary E. Pearson
I love challenging films, really. I'd prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun. -- Charlie Rowe
Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change. -- Dylan McDermott
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too. -- Jeff Vandermeer
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian. -- Philippa Gregory
I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason. -- Will Rothhaar
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. -- Tahir Shah
Pulp Fiction is a, uh, gritty, urban satire. Pump Friction is a uh-uh, a bunch of uh, dudes and ladies having dirty sex. -- Norm MacDonald
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
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward... -- Martha Beck
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are. -- Natalie Goldberg
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. -- David Miliband
People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that. -- Wes Craven
To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category. -- Jillian Medoff
A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it. -- Caroline Llewellyn
I guess gritty is the word that you said. But it has a different tone. We're not flying around in different universes - it's a bit more earthy. -- Jeremy Renner
Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors. -- Mark Suster
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
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty. -- Chang-Rae Lee
In the dream world of Matisse and the gritty reality of American frontier, the diversity of women in our society offers the chance for greater exploration and even greater inspiration. -- Vera Wang
There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought. -- Rachel Nichols
When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong. -- Elvis Presley
It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft. -- Scott Adsit
I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now. -- Alexander Weinstein
What we don't listen to, is what I am continually telling people in which nobody really, to get down to the nitty gritty believes, is that there is a piece of Divinity in us. -- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through. -- John Updike
I think what we're trying to do as filmmakers is make a big, gritty, raw, epic movie and within that show things graphically in a way that they haven't been seen in that world before. -- Rupert Sanders
I find infidelity interesting because it's so revelatory about people. It's this really silent thing. Everyone acknowledges it as a general practice, but nobody likes to go beyond that, to get down to the nitty-gritty. -- Junot Diaz

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