Al Barry Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.
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There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on.
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I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.
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Witches’ feet make no footprint. Witches’ bodies make no shadows. But they make the trees, the land, the moss, A little colder as they pass.
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Move too quickly and time will pass you by.
