John Barton Quotes
I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
Quotes to Explore
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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It's fine to discuss money in France, as long as you're complaining that you don't have enough, or boasting about getting a bargain.
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I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street.
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When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.
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With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed.
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My life and career have been a big improvisation.
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I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
