John Grant Quotes
Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I'm an emotional person.
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The beautiful thing about the NFL season is to see a team come together after they get to know each other in the spring and summer. You then go through adversity together and see how you respond. The teams that can respond in a positive way are the teams that are going to be there in the end.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.
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I think growing up in skating, I was surrounded by the LGBT community, so I grew up very aware because I was around it so often, and some of the kindest people I know are gay figure skaters.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.
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Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.
