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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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life. One sign that you're awakened is that you don't give a damn about what's going to happen in the next life. You're not bothered about it; you don't care. You are not interested, period.
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It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.
