John Barton Quotes
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
Quotes to Explore
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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We can do things that are very, very simple to us that can have a huge impact on others.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.
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I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
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Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.
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The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.
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My book is not a book of dirty stories. There are no shocking revelations. I wasn't looking for any and I didn't find any.
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I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.
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Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
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Life is not just about singing.
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A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.
