John Heywood Quotes
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I love to write.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
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We have to use every tool at our disposal and that's why we're trialing a badger cull. We need healthy wildlife living alongside healthy cattle. Only if we work to eradicate the reservoir of TB in our badgers, will we have the strong and prosperous dairy industry the public wishes to see.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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I suppose - in the last resort - you trust life - or you don't. Well - I don't. There's something malicious . . . corrupt . . . cruel . . . at the heart of it. We don't belong. We're a mistake.
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The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of 'Vive la nation' in the September massacres of 1792.
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If you eat every two hours, your body doesn't really hold much fat, and it actually speeds up your metabolism.
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You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
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I would like to speak 10 languages.
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Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.
