John Grant Quotes

My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

John Grant

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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Power
  • War
  • Political

• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Movies
  • Stock
  • Silent

• I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Economic

• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • You
  • Knowledge
  • Cherish

• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Able
  • Instincts
  • Repression

• I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

  

  Banks
  • Heart
  • Judge
  • Own

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

  

  Iain Banks
  • School
  • Remember
  • Water

• I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Always
  • Tell

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Beginning
  • Wonderful
  • Just

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I love strong women.

  

  John Hillcoat
  • Women
  • Strong

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Changing

• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Flowers

• My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

  

  Andrea Barrett
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

  

  John Grant
  • She
  • Mother
  • Soul