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.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Song
  • Party

• 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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Bad
  • You
  • Count

• Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Alcohol

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • You
  • Tears
  • Cry

• You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Acting

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• I'm an emotional person.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Person
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Together
  • Beautiful
  • Team

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• He who is firm in will molds the world to himself. [Ger., Aber wer fest auf dem Sinne beharrt, der bildet die Welt sich.]

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Firm
  • Molds

• People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.

  

  Ivan Illich
  • Work
  • Need
  • Tools

• I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.

  

  John Grant
  • People
  • Beautiful