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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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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What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.
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The more you take on, the more efficient you become. You only learn how much you can actually do by trying to do too much.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?" "Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.
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Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
