John Bytheway Quotes
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Seek the seeker.
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Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different
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To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
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The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a magician takes towers and rabbits out of his hat, he drew love from his small body.
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The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
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Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; he is afraid.
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
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Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.
