Kate del Castillo

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

Mexican Actress

Nigel Hawthorne

I'm not looking at any stage stuff at all. I'm going to give that a break for a while, if not forever, because I've done a huge amount of stage stuff and if the possibility of working in pictures comes along, I'd be silly if I didn't grab it.

English Actor

Randy Houser

I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

American Musician

James Bay

There was a guitar that my uncle owned and never learnt to play. He sold it to my dad, and when I heard 'Layla', that was the tune that really grabbed me. I said to my dad, 'Wait, there's a guitar, right?

British Musician

Jay Samit

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

American Businessman

Ted Naifeh

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

American Writer

Robin Gibb

Losing people makes you realize you've got to grab life - not put things off.

English Musician

Mani Ratnam

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.

Indian Director

Wole Soyinka

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Nigerian Dramatist

Sam Shepard

It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

American Playwright

Use 'grab' to describe an action done with speed and little hesitation.

Quick Action

'Grab' is casual and often used in everyday, informal contexts.

Informal Situations

Implies a physical action involving your hands, not just touching.

Physical Action

'Grab' can metaphorically suggest taking an advantage or opportunity.

Metaphorical Use

Can express desperation or eagerness in taking an opportunity.

Emotionally Charged

Figuratively captures the act of drawing or focusing attention.

Figurative Attention

Indicates something had a strong, immediate emotional effect.

Emotional Impact

Use as a noun when referring to the physical act of taking hold.

Literal Grasp

'Grab' can suggest an urgent or decisive action to secure something.

Urgency Connotation

 these guys in the world which would be incredible so that'd be lovely once it's all done now was this useful this contraption thing here they've basically old-school zoo keeping if an animal was sick you'd have to kind of grab it in a net and take it up to the vets in an emergency style but nowadays we don't we

4 Adorable Animals That...

 that grab odor molecules. The mutations let them grab different molecules, giving us the power to perceive trillions of different smells. Sometimes mutations have a bigger effect on new copies of genes. They may cause a gene to make its protein in a different organ, or at a different time of life,

Where do genes come...

 for people to grab them it's really really sad and it's unfortunately quite common most baby parrots never even make it to market the vast majority die on root the way the people carry these animals is completely inhumane they're wrapped up in plastic bags they usually

Baby Parrots Rescued...

 spoon I grabbed it from his hand I run my thumb on it it was greasy I took a smiie a sniff of it it was already smelling of somewhere it's been reused you know plastic has got so many chemical complexes in it phthalates chill aids bisphenol this cause cancer

A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...

 one of them might grab you, one of them might engage you more than anything else, and then you may have found your greatest love, in comparison to all the other things that interest you, and that's what passion is. I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie.

Larry Smith: Why you...

 and i'd love to be able to tell you that the reason for her lion attacking a hyena is simply to defend its meal but you know what truth is lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or

Hair-Raising Hyena...

 all the sample vials have broken. The virus is contained for now, but unless you can destroy it, the vents will soon open and unleash a deadly airborne plague. Without hesitation, you grab your HazMat suit and get ready to save the world.

Can you solve the virus...

 Truth is, lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything, whether it's a predator or otherwise. If it doesn't represent a meal, they just leave it. If it does, of course they eat it,

Eternal Adversaries:...

 what I wrote it meant that if I found something I'd have to grab it otherwise I'd be a hypocrite to myself and to others and that would be a bad example so I felt an incredible responsibility in some way to

A message of peace, hope...

 I hope they were symptom because they will get tired and if a crop grabs them resurrection the poor mothers just don't know what to do they have no way of lifting them out and David can't even help

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