John Battelle Quotes
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I love books.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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And even though rain was a miracle because this was the desert, that night it was not a miracle because the rain sounded like a thief trying to break into the house.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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When I look for people to work with, I'm just looking for talented people.
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People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest.
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I feel very ready to be a pop star. I feel like that's something that I deserve, and I feel prepared for being number one in the charts!
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I'll admit it: I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.
