John Barton Quotes
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.
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I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
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Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.
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Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.
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In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
