John Bytheway Quotes
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.
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I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
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You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
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Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
