John Barton Quotes

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

John Barton

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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Joan Collins

LifeWorkParentsMeDifficultVery

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.

Robert Kyncl

GreatPeopleWritingBridgesTools

I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else.

Ann Richards

TruthGovernmentPeopleThinkOffice

I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Tove Lo

MusicYourselfClothesYouDownRun

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Michael Madsen

FamilySellingOutYourReally

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Jay McInerney

WritingProcessEnvyDiscoveryFind

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Johnny Ramone

MoneyPeopleMeThoughtNobodyWant

The key for me is to score goals and win trophies.

Diego Costa

GoalsMeWinKeyScoreTrophies

With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.

Donna Lynne Champlin

WomenGreatSayingJealousMadUs

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Christina Milian

FunnyExperienceGunYouDownEver

Elie Wiesel and his book 'Night' have changed my life, shifting the way I see and treat people and inspiring me to fight injustices any way I am able.

Clemantine Wamariya

LifeFightI AmPeopleMeTreat

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Colin Firth

TreeMeSwimmingThinkI CanLiving

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