John Grant Quotes
I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I was a tomboy.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.
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I grew up in New York.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I was a very earthly, matronly, plus-size little girl with a pure heart.
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Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
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All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses.
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Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.
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I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
