John Grant Quotes
The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen? ... That debt...is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants...are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.
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I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
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The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
