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 did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.
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For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
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Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.
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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.
