John Barton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
-
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
-
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.
-
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
-
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.
-
Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
-
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.
-
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.
-
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
-
I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.
-
Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
-
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
-
I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.
-
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
