John Michael Hayes Quotes
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For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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I'm a novelist, and I'm a woman, and I'm considered to be a serious author whether I like it or not.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
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We all do better when we all do better.
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I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
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When I was twenty I was in love with words, a wordsmith. I didn't know enough to know when people were letting words get in their way. Now I like the words to disappear, like a transparent curtain.
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There's a reason hobble skirts are called hobble skirts. You literally can't move very far in them.
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The guys who spend a lot of time on the range become his closest friends, ... He has always gravitated toward the guys who work the hardest.
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I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
