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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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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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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Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.
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Energy is called 'the master resource' for a reason.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.
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This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.
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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.
