Sydney Biddle Barrows Quotes
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.
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I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.
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I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.
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Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
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But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.
