John Heywood Quotes
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.
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My dad had to work for everything in his life; so did my mum: she cleaned people's houses and looked after old people. You can be complacent and sit on the couch and complain about the dreams that you missed. Get off the couch!
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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I'll never put my memoirs in print.
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.
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The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.
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There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.
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Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
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When the iron is hot, strike.
