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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One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.'
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Don't get me started on critics.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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But surely you trust God! Do you think He would let you come to harm? To be afraid is to distrust.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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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.
