John Barton Quotes
I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I don't have many friends.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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You don't need to over-dramatise life, you can just reflect it. It's more interesting, in a way, if it appears to ring true.
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I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.
