John Grant Quotes
When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
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It's not until you develop your own voice, your own persona onstage that you become your own comic, who you really are.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
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Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry.
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I don't think there are enough stories told about black men and their relationships and how they build and bond with one another.
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The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
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Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.
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I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
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I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
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The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.
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She had a moment of engulfing sadness about this, about the way that even when we’re living through tragedy, the language we reach for, the only language available to us, is secondhand.
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I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera.
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When I got into languages, I needed to amass things to make myself more palatable or more acceptable as a human.
