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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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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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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Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
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All accusation is of the devil, no matter where it comes from. It is just as dangerous to accuse others as it is to give the accuser room in your own life. The accuser gives no hope. God does not accuse us, but He does give us promptings that bring light and hope.
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I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
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I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.
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When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
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I love patchwork quilts. But not in music.
