John Baizley (John Dyer Baizley) Quotes

Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you.

John Baizley Baroness

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• If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.

  

  Garth Nix
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Black
  • Everybody

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • You
  • Learn

• Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tell

• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Family
  • Giving
  • Giving Back

• As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • People
  • World
  • Idea

• You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • You
  • Lead

• One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Life
  • Situation

• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

  

  Bad Bunny
  • People
  • Song
  • Album

• I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Hand
  • Annoying

• My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Friends

• Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Home
  • Way
  • Imagine

• I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

  

  Lee Gutkind
  • True
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Give your stuff away and if it's good, people will come to you.

  

  John Baizley Baroness
  • People
  • Giving