John Grant Quotes

Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

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• Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Business
  • You
  • Me

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Child
  • Attractive

• I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Society
  • Change
  • Party

• I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Love
  • Same
  • Pizza

• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Embarrassed
  • Hobbies

• I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Someone
  • Speaks
  • Pads

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Frank Sinatra

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Gay

• I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Wish
  • Find
  • Anything

• The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Best
  • Being

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

  

  Edmund White
  • New York
  • Group
  • Immigrant

• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Me
  • Comedy
  • Violence

• I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Independent
  • Decisions

• I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Work
  • Best
  • Texas

• When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Today
  • Science
  • Dad

• When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

  

  Lauren Cohan

• I really started acting when I was 12 when I was doing this television show called 'Jack & Bobby.'

  

  Logan Lerman

• The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• Instead of being with my family, I was spending a lot of time trying to start all over again, from zero, in another country. I couldn't take it anymore, so I went back to Mexico and said, 'I'm gonna do my own stuff.' So, I did my movie that I was trying to do for many, many years, called 'Instructions Not Included.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Country
  • Being
  • Back

• Becoming a musician was all about escape. It was about getting away from the foulness that was me.

  

  John Grant