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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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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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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Note: This is one of Maharaji's first published addresses. He was 4 years of age at that time.
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The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring, Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, And one by one the singing-birds come back. Within the city's bounds the time of flowers Comes earlier. Let a mild and sunny day, Such as full often, for a few bright hours, Breathes through the sky of March the airs of May, Shine on our roofs and chase the wintry gloom- And lo! our borders glow with sudden bloom.
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Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
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I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.
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A good scientific theory should be explicable to a barmaid.
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
