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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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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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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You always feel bad when you see in the newspaper or on television that someone's suffered a tragedy. You might make a donation, but too often we're so wrapped up in our own situations we don't do everything we could to help out. This has certainly changed the way I'll look at these things in the future.
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I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.
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If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.
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I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.
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Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.
