John Grant Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
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As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
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The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
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There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
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Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.
