John Grant Quotes
I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.
Quotes to Explore
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.
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One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.
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It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.
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When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.
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Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.
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I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.
