John Grant Quotes
I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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My health is fine.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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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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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.
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I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the '80s and '90s... I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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I think cultures of conformity produce vast quantities of shame, both in people who simply can't conform and people who do conform, but underneath, they're not feeling conformist.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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I don't feel like I'm writing music for gay people. I'm a gay man who is writing music about one tiny little experience of what it's like to be a human on this planet.
