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 had two jobs coming out of school: I did a play, 'The Great White Hope.' I played the boxer Jack Johnson. And I was the lead in this indie film. Then I moved to Los Angeles because New York was cold and it was really too quiet for me at that time. I was out of school; I was hungry. The auditions were trickling in, and I was antsy and ready to go.
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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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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
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To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.
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I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.
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I do not want these women-centric films, or... what's that term? ...mahila-pradhan films as everyone calls them.
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It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.
