John Hartford Quotes
You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I don't do negative things.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.
