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.
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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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Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.
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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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With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.
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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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I acted my heart out.
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I'm never offered any sort of roles. I need to audition in a typically lengthy process to receive roles.
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When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
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Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't. It's like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words all you want, but you'll never be able to speak it until you suck up your courage and say them out loud.
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When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
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Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
