John Dyer Quotes
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
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I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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It's especially gratifying to have done a film like 'Eight Men Out' because it's hard not to have fun when there are so many bats and balls around.
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
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With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.
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I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
