John Heywood Quotes
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It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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Home is most important in the long run.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
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I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.
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I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
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A penny for your thought.
