John Heywood Quotes
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Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.
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My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.
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When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.
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The more a business is able to develop and articulate a core purpose and engage with millennials, who equate purpose with business excellence, the greater chances for long-term success.
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So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.
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I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
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Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
