John Barton Quotes
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
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An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
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I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it.
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
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I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.
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There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we get the black to see through the eyes of the white? Or the citizen to see through the eyes of the immigrant? Or the straight to see through the eyes of the gay? That has always been a struggle in our politics.
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The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it
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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
