John Grant Quotes
When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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When I came back from filming the 'Chandelier' video, everyone was like, 'So what'd you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?' And I was like, 'Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.'
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Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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My family will be disappointed only if I'm disappointed, and hopefully that won't be the case. I'm trying to view the Olympics like any other race and I think the London course will suit my style.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
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Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.
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When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.
