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.
Saffron Aldridge -
I love so many styles of music.
Sam Hunt -
I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei -
I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
Ram Charan -
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.
Rachel Weisz -
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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
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.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
Maddie Hasson -
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
Taya Kyle -
A house is kind of scary.
Laura Dekker -
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.
Maluma -
People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
Verne Troyer -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
Tatiana de Rosnay
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If some day you're struggling with math, and you think, 'I don't think I can do this,' you can - you actually can. Everybody has their hard days - I definitely had mine - and you get through them, and you learn from that stumble, and then you're onto the next problem.
Peggy Johnson -
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.
Drew Barrymore -
We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.
Jeb Bush -
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.
Tad Williams -
My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
Lydia Millet -
Online fundraising is so important to the Democratic Party.
John Byrne