Barry B. Longyear Quotes
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
Quotes to Explore
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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My company Independent Ideas worked with Gucci on a special edition Fiat 500.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.
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I have no human feelings.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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I'd like to see fashion slow down a bit. What freaks me out about fashion today is the speed - the speed of consuming, the speed of ideas. When fashion moves so fast, it takes away something I always loved, which is the idea that fashion should be slightly elusive. Hard to grasp, hard to find.
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I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.
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Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.
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There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
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When I am on a stage, I am the focus of thousands of eyes and it gives me strength. I feel that something, some energy, is flowing from the audience into me. I actually feel stronger because of these waves.
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You know you wanna do your career, but at the same time, it could end any day and there are so many things in this industry that are stupid and vain, like photo shoots every day. I have always a struggle with that.
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Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
