John Barton Quotes

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Always
  • Creation
  • Shame

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• 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.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Wish
  • Him
  • I Wish

• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Things
  • All Things

• 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.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Circumstances
  • Cynical

• 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.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Band
  • Rock
  • First

• I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Same
  • Try
  • Humble

• Dialogue is like jazz. Dialogue is creative.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Creative
  • Jazz
  • Dialogue

• You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Look
  • Clothes

• 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.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Words

• 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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Music
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Home
  • Book
  • Year

• 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.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Career
  • Working
  • Blessings

• I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Hated

• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Enough
  • Act
  • Educated

• I remember going to McDonald's for the first time probably when I was in college. And then I remember going and visiting a friend in Wyoming, and he said, 'We're going to do something special. We're going to McDonald's.'

  

  John Lee Hancock
  • Time
  • Remember
  • College

• I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Live
  • Lazy

• Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

  

  Mariano Rivera
  • God
  • Career

• I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them. It's not just about admiration for their films, it's how they deal with you, and whether they get you or the way you work. If they don't, you better adjust your way of working to suit them. I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • People
  • Character
  • Giving

• Beware the toils of war ... the mesh of the huge dragnet sweeping up the world.

  

  Homer
  • War
  • Sweeping
  • Dragnet

• Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

  

  John Barton