John Grant Quotes
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
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I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'
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I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
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The first song that I remember writing in its entirety was when I was 9 years old. I wrote it on a bus, on a field trip. It was called 'Mystery Man,' and in retrospect, it was the beginning of my exploration of what it was like to have a man in your life, because I didn't.
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I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
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Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
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I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
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I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
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I'm a seriously flawed individual, but I guess everybody is.
