Amelia Barr Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.
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Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the community or state view. Fragmentary reality is always set against composite reality. Virginia Woolf did this by creating fragmentary monologues and for a while this was all the rage in literature. She was a genius. In the hands of the merely talented it came off like gibberish.
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Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.
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You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
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The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.
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I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work. It's just how do you get it seen?
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Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
