Laird Barron Quotes
My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity.
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.
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The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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It's funny because if you ever ask anyone in England to try and do a Beatles accent, no one knows what they really sound like. If you ask anyone in America, they would try and give it a go. English people just know their songs.
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When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
