John Barton Quotes
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.
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You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.
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One of the blessings I've had, really, for my entire career, is working with founders of companies, whether it was Bill Ziff at Ziff Davis or with Jerry Yang and David Filo at Yahoo.
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I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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I wanted to go to San Antonio. I told them I was coming. I had to tell them that I was changing my mind and staying with the Nets. It was a day later when I had to tell them, but when I got back to Jersey, when I started thinking about the process, I felt a little more comfortable staying home.
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The people of Shishmaref want their community to survive, but they are holding on to their legacy by a very delicate thread indeed. The threat of their land disappearing is only the beginning.
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The British judiciary is one of the most corrupt in the world because of politically active judges.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
