John Barton Quotes

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dark

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.

  

  Felicia Day
  • You
  • Day
  • Personality

• I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Hand
  • Moment

• I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don't. I do eat lots of vegetables. It's the same with dairy - I'll eat it then stop.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Age
  • Food

• We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Money
  • Government

• Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Woman

• When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Great
  • Me
  • Look

• My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Real
  • Man
  • Me

• I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Body
  • Diet

• Someone asked me the other day, 'What is your most memorable moment in your career?' and by far, China was. Being so close - the medal race was one part of the story, and there were a few incidents through the event that amounted to that massive drama at the end that cost us the medal.

  

  Nathan Outteridge
  • Career
  • Day
  • Drama

• You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Fear
  • Need
  • Anxiety

• I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Assistant

• I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!

  

  Allison Janney

• If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Words
  • Knives
  • Wrongs

• Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak in terms of a zero-sum world, or speak in terms of America's purpose as no more than grabbing the largest share possible in the short run, goes against our foreign policy tradition that goes back to 1900, really.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • World
  • Party
  • Purpose

• I'm definitely still wild at heart.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Heart
  • Still
  • WIld

• The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

  

  John Barton