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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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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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A highly visible, shared identity can help bring activists from different backgrounds together with a common sense of purpose and push for change more effectively - from the global stage to within their own communities and families.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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Put a puppy in your picture, and it will make it 20 times better.
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Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.
