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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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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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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One thing I've had to realize in my career is that I can't do it all. Sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to make sure we're writing the next hit. There are other people out there, and that's what they do every day, and they have strengths that I don't have.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
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The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.
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The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
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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.
