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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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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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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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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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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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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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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It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.
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I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'
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I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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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.
