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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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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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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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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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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[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything.
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Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.
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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.
