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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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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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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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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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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It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.
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It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.
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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.
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Some people say how they'd like to live in different eras. Not me.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
