John Barrow Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life.
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
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If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible... now there's the complete package of womanhood.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I agree with you that should work together in a bipartisan fashion, and I believe this work product is a result of a hard-fought compromise.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
