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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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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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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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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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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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
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I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.
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Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist?
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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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.
