John Grant Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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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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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
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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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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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Sitcoms are designed for normal people who just want to turn on their TV and get a laugh. It's not high-brow, you don't have to work so hard, and it's meant to be a relatable genre. That's why I love it so much - my fans are from 8 years old to 80 years old, because everybody can relate to what's funny.
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No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.
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U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.
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I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.
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I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.
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I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.
