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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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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Vibrations are nothing but Divine Love.
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If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.
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I like The Smiths as well. They took a cue from The Buzzcocks. They have jangly guitars instead of distorted guitars. All the Manchester bands have a character about them. The Stone Roses and The Smiths and all that. Even if you don't like them, they have a certain original sound.
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Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
