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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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
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We have to remember that information sharing is restricted by legal barriers and cultural barriers and by the notion that information is power and therefore should be hoarded so if you share information you can extract something in exchange. In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind. We need the data of other countries to connect the dots.
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America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.
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Tridents (sic) are not weapons of mass destruction.
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What does bother me is that I have to spend time and energy dealing with the ramifications of what people do think about me.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
