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 love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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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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This is the game. We win some, we lose some but I will never shy away from a challenge.
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I prefer to play the bad guy - it gives you more freedom as an actor.
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I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel like a sell out. That's how it would feel to me.
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Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions, on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.
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Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.
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Most of the bad things that have happened to me happened in Denver.
