John Heywood Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.
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My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
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Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.
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When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.
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All movements go too far.
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A penny for your thought.
