First Quote by John Grant Download Open image “The first 20 years had such a profound effect on me, I spent the next 20 dealing with them.” — John Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare First Me Next Profound Them
I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness. — Sienna Miller Copy Share Image
The worst things that ever happened to me were before I was 20. It has been slow, hard-won improvement since then. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I feel like I grew 10 years between the ages of 18 and 20 - it was such an intense period of awkwardness and change. — Olivia Rodrigo Copy Share Image
It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it. — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them. — Vitor Belfort Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people. I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Were you really happy with them. Were they treating you right? Were you hoping that things would change and go back to how it… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
People have always painted me like a pessimist, like somebody who sees the glass half-empty. But I think the fact that I keep showing… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought,… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo. — John Grant Copy Share Image
'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to… — John Grant Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I had never considered myself a political guy, but there are certain things I can't shut up about. When I hear people say things… — John Grant Copy Share Image
The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else. — John Grant Copy Share Image
I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them,… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Life is going to hit you some line drives, and sometimes you'll have to think fast. However, it's better to think first than to… — John Bytheway Copy Share Image
You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you… — Amy Landecker Copy Share Image
I watched the movie 'What We Do in the Shadows' in a packed theater when it first came out. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
When we first sold the Wallace and Gromit shorts to America, people suggested we get rid of the strange British accents and put clear… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a great believer in the power of the pause. Radio is a bit brasher now. My style was slower. I just used… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image