John Barton Quotes
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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It’s a funny thing, when you talk to God, you’re religious, but when he talks to you, you’re a psychopath.
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I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
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The world's whole sap is sunk: The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk, Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk, Dead and interred; yet all these seem to laugh, Compared with me, who am their epitaph.
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Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
