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.
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!
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.
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
Don’t ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.
It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.
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.
I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?
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.
Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
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.
