Dave Barry Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.
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My dad dated a lot of supermodels.
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I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
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Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.
Antony Sher -
I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Pop music, across its countless iterations, is a vast, amazing, thrilling art form. All life is in it. It stands for itself. The same is true of literature, but nobody feels compelled to toss Philip Roth a grammy just to prove it.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
