‘Chicago Fire’ has been a wonderful outlet for me. We’re thrown into the gritty streets of Chicago working among actual first responders. They’re a wonderful bunch, and the sense of community among Midwesterners is very similar to Australians.
The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.
Sometimes games may not go the way you plan it, and sometimes you have to do the dirty, gritty stuff well – you have to tackle; you have to run. I learned that when I was young, and it is a good feeling to work hard for the team, to get the ball back.
I guess after the whole success with ‘Lean On’ – me being introduced into this more mainstream audience – I was a little scared of being my true self, and being vulnerable and being gritty.
During the past few years, I played men who led a gritty life. I wanted to do a lighter and less serious role.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we’ve got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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.
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.
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
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.
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.
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.
In ‘Mirror Mirror,’ I played Prince Charming’s side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I’ve tended to play the complete opposite! I’ve played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.
Jessica Jones isn’t dressed in a sexy outfit to turn people on. She’s gritty. She’s a human being.
To go from ‘Generation Kill,’ which is a very real, dark, gritty series, to ‘True Blood,’ which is flamboyant, crazy, way out there… I couldn’t ask for two better jobs.
It’s so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people’s faces.
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.
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
New Yorkers are real gritty and tough.
Lowry is a pitbull. He’s a gritty player who scores in a variety of ways, but he’s also one of the few guards who also does the things that go unnoticed on the stat sheet.
I guess after the whole success with ‘Lean On’ – me being introduced into this more mainstream audience – I was a little scared of being my true self, and being vulnerable and being gritty.
I love gritty dramas, ‘Queen Sugar,’ ‘True Detective’ – stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies – those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.
I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I’ll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.
Fights like that, when I have been in those really gritty wars, that’s what I live for. I love that stuff.
I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.
As a young woman, before I had any money, I went backpacking across India, and I was aware of how gritty it could be.
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.
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety… and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.
I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
Tough, gritty, those are things that have been in me since I was a little kid.
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.
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.
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?
The more balls that I hit, it’s going to get better and better. Once I get a bit more confidence in my ball striking, that’s when we can get down to the nitty gritty parts of the game.
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.
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
You don’t have to get into, ‘I’m a leftist or a rightist, I’m Democrat or Republican.’ You don’t have to get into that kind of nitty gritty type of detail, but at the same time to show that you do have a stance is very, very important. To preach the good word of just being a good human being, being a humanitarian.
I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!
‘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.
I didn’t grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
‘The Interceptor’ is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.
I’ve always wanted to work in America because of those brilliant east-coast political movies of the ’70s and ’80s – great scripts, wonderful performances, gritty urban parable.
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
‘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.
I love challenging films, really. I’d prefer to do some gritty, challenging roles. That would be awesome and really fun.
Lowry is a pitbull. He’s a gritty player who scores in a variety of ways, but he’s also one of the few guards who also does the things that go unnoticed on the stat sheet.
‘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.
The future has both gritty and savage and clean and ‘techno-hip.’ I think it’s a very realistic point of view.
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.
I’ve just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, ‘Here Lies Arthur,’ and I’m currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera ‘Larklight.’
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!
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.
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