John Heywood Quotes
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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I'm a very laboured writer. I hammer it out sentence by sentence, and it takes a long time. That's what the work is, right? To make the reader think it is not hard to do.
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If I'm forced to leave West Ham, it will be done according to the rules - the club will have its share of the cake.
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Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
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Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to evensong.
