John Grant Quotes
I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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The American dream is still to own your home.
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Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.
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It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.
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My favorite candy bar is a PayDay.
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I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.
