John Heywood Quotes
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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I don't think you'll ever hear me invoking God in anything I do.
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It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.
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I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
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I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.
Garry Kasparov -
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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The unit of significance in the poem is not the word but the phrase or sentence...a poet should consider the effect of the whole poem, not its local felicities.
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When you turn the corner And you run into yourself Then you know that you have turned All the corners that are left.
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I was trying not to mention backtracking. Which, of course, means that yours is 'righter' than mine, in a theoretical sense.
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My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams. And it's given me great perspective.
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.
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Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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She is one of a dying breed. I love her very much.
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All is not Gospell that thou doest speake.
