John Michael Hayes Quotes
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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A house is kind of scary.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.
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I was an angry, angry child at times.
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I never made it on 'Castle.' I tried a few times, so I don't know, but it never worked out.
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Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.
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Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
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'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
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Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.
