John Heywood Quotes
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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I eat right and stay healthy as much as possible.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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I like to wear jewellery, even though I like my look to be minimalist. When I go out for events, I like to have at least one statement piece. It always adds glamour.
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I wasn't a great background singer.
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It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.
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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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Dr Johnson died in 1944. The suspicion exists that he was silenced...However two federal inspectors did examine his hospital record in the late 1950's. They concluded it was likely that he was poisoned.
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It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
