John Grant Quotes
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.
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It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
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I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.
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Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
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Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
