John Dyer Quotes

Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

John Dyer

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Fast
  • Champagne

• I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Long
  • Nature

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • School
  • Home
  • Remember

• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • She
  • Career
  • Style

• I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Power
  • Learn
  • Realize

• The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Silly

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• I'm a slave to the culture, so I see an Audi, a Denali, or an Escalade, my neighbor got the four-door Porsche. I have a really nice truck. But it's a Durango and I like frontin'! I like to ride by and show off.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Culture
  • Nice
  • Door

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • Past
  • Best

• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Always
  • Start
  • Size

• I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.

  

  Lionel Sosa
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• My past was so amazing. It's that fine line of appreciating it and letting it go. I have my animal rescue, and I have my daughter and my family that helped me move forward.

  

  Mayte Garcia
  • Family
  • Past
  • Amazing

• Andy Samberg and Chelsea Peretti went to kindergarten together. For real.

  

  Daniel J. Goor
  • Real
  • Together

• Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire.

  

  John Dyer
  • Good
  • Long
  • Fun