Carson Grant Quotes
The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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I love the smell of a man's skin.
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I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
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Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.
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I think you're the least fucked-up person I've ever met,And that may be as close to the real thing as I'm ever gonna get.
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The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.
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A world without nuclear weapons may be a dream but you cannot base a sure defence on dreams. Without far greater trust and confidence between East and West than exists at present, a world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
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I love the way I make hip-hop and I refuse to make pop-rap. I don't refuse to make mainstream music, which is why I did a soul record. There was no reason why soul music couldn't get played on the radio and I still wanted to have a relationship with my record label. So, I really enjoyed doing the Strickland Banks album. But there's no point in my trying to release underground hip-hop music on a major label. That part of my talent, or part of my art, had to live somewhere else and feature film was the perfect vehicle for it.
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
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The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.
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Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
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The Arts, especially film, transcend all cultural barriers, hopefully offering an avenue where all people can find a common place to meet, understand each other, and nurture a safe world for all our children to grow strong within.
