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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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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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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I've been typed as historical fiction, historical women's fiction, historical mystery, historical chick lit, historical romance - all for the same book.
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Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
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If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.
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I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
