Laird Barron Quotes
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.
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There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.
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Put a lawn sign on your lawn; go door to door for your candidate. Register people to vote. There's so much we can do through our voices and time. That's what flips elections.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
