John Verity Quotes
It wasn't in a school band. I didn't manage to hook up with anybody at school. Pretty soon after I started playing, I stopped going to school. It took quite a while for my parents to find out. I didn't need to go to school anymore because I was going to be this big rock and roll star.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
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Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
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What we must create is the man of the twenty-first century, although this is still a subjective and not a realised aspiration. It is precisely this man of the next century who is one of the fundamental objectives of our work...
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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
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Issues become much more real to me when I have stories back home.
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I was so flat-chested in high school that I thought I'd better be funny if guys were going to like me.
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From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.
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It wasn't in a school band. I didn't manage to hook up with anybody at school. Pretty soon after I started playing, I stopped going to school. It took quite a while for my parents to find out. I didn't need to go to school anymore because I was going to be this big rock and roll star.
