John Bolton Quotes
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Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.
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Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
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Anytime I audition for something, it's always a question of whether or not the people I'm auditioning for understand I'm an improviser and I like to do that, and if they like that or if they just want someone who's going to do what's written.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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People don't like to talk about victory and defeat anymore.
