John Byrne Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I love so many styles of music.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
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The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father.
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Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
