John Grant Quotes
The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.
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The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.
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Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
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You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
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I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.
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In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my mother, 'How am I going to make a million dollars?' And she said to me, 'Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.'
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I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.
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I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.
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The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.
