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I don't think estates are grim places.
Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.
I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.
My life could have been so grim really, really grim.
My life could have been so grim... really, really grim.
Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
I was an estate agent for three years. That was pretty grim.
'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.
I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.
As a child, I used to bite my toenails, which is grim. I can still do it.
Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.
The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.
So many people are walking around looking so grim all the time. I just never understand why.
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
It's a grim business, this being funny. Every time you come up with a strong, satiric idea, the world tops it.
When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.
You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.
Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
History often reads as a hard and grim experience. But people are remarkably resilient and funny, even when the going is very hard.
We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.
When everything else is looking so grim and the world is changing so fast that it's scary, one thing that remains consistent is kindness.
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
I went to a grim Victorian school with classes of 40 or 50 children. It was a very rigid and unimaginative education, but it did teach us the three Rs.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
I've realised that nothing that happens is so grim that life can't go on. Life always goes on, no matter what. Even in the grimmest situation, I see hope.
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.