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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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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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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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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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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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.
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I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
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All I want to know is why a party of Fey wanted to kill me,” I said heatedly. The beetle’s lips twisted enough to show fang. “Doesn’t everyone?” Radu hustled me out the door before I could find out if the vamp’s plump little carcass would fit into his overstuffed desk.
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Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
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The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.
