John Battelle Quotes
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have the chance to stay somewhere more luxurious, I love The Montage in Beverly Hills.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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I take my work seriously.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.
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The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.
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