John Heywood Quotes
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.
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I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
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Aut nihil est sensus animis a morte relictumaut mors ipsa nihil.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
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When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result.
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I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.
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It will all come back - the wasted splendor, The heart's lost youth like a breaking flower, The dauntless dare, and the wistful, tender Touch of the April hour.
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I find myself saying 'sorry' for things I shouldn't be sorry for, haha.
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.
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The tide tarrieth no man.
