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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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.
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Nothing is important... so everything is important.
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No loose fish enters our quiet bay.
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There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
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It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.
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Better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
