John Grant Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote island. It means to live fully, authentically and spontaneously with nothing being held back.
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My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
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I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.
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The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that.
