Dave Barry Quotes
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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People have to evolve.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
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I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
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I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.
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I. Hate. Excuses. Excuses are a disease.
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An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
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When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.
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I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
