John Dyer Quotes
I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Gymnastics is my favorite Olympic sport, hands-down.
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I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
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I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.
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It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.
