John Grant Quotes
I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.
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I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I see lots of differences between Australians and Americans - but as mothers, I think we're pretty much alike!
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I think, in accepting the amount of money that athletes make, I think that fans accept that now. It's the nature of the beast; that's the way it is, so they understand it. All, I think, fans have changed - because the price of tickets has gone up so much - that they feel a certain sense of entitlement when they go to a game.
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It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
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All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.
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I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.
