John Grant Quotes
When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
Quotes to Explore
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.
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If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.
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There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a band. You like the band, you like the band.
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When I'm on stage, it's a little world I've created where I'm sort of the thing, so I have total control over everything that happens. When we're improvising, I'm with someone I totally trust. I know things are going to work out. I don't have those guarantees in life. There are no consequences on stage.
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Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.
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And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different.
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When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
