John Grant Quotes
The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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Now that I'm married and have two beautiful children, it really makes me appreciate... being alone.
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The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.
