John Grant Quotes
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.
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I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
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I spend a lot of time with my characters.
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I can't control what people think. They know who I am.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
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I've never been in the music industry, only acting.
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I've sung other people's music all my life.
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I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
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I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
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Every game, we're going to go for it, so when we get into playoff time, it's not like, 'You've really got to ratchet it up. You've really got to do something different.' Then what have I been doing the whole time?
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I love 'Fishing With John' so much.
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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.
