John Grant Quotes
I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.
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I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.
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There is something about Hayti which we have to deplore, and so there is about the United States. Let us go back 100 years and look at Hayti, and we find it surrounded by slavery and the whole Caribbean Sea reddened by the curse.
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Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.
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The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
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I don't let the computer into my bedroom. It would get in the way of life, sleep. And I really can't let that happen.
