John Grant Quotes
That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
Quotes to Explore
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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You have to open up on stage.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
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That inner narrative - the desire to understand the way I am - never really switches off.
