John Grant Quotes

Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Person
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dying

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • True
  • Fear

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Home
  • Sleep
  • Baby

• I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Words
  • Way
  • Favorite

• I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Me

• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Said
  • Genius
  • Hollywood

• 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.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Dad

• I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Judge

• I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Good
  • Long
  • Remember

• Iwan Rheon is a great actor, and he's going to go on to a long brilliant career. And most of the characters he'll play will not be evil. He's not one of those who can only play a bad guy.

  

  David Benioff
  • Great
  • Long
  • Bad

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Job
  • Growing

• I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Words

• Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.

  

  John Grant
  • Bad