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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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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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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Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.
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Teams tend to fold if you come out and play hard in the beginning.
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Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
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Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
