John Battelle Quotes
As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.
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Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.
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I am much more interested in the process than results.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.
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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
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For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.
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Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
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I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
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As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.
