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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You don't have to subject yourself to the sweep and rigor of Bourdieu's book 'Distinction' to feel how thoroughly a lower-calorie version of its ideas has been absorbed into the cultural bloodstream.
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I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into much more. It was a little before my time and I think it was sort of grappling with these intellectual ideas that were a little advanced for my young mind. At the time. But now I have a much deeper appreciation for it.
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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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As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories.
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I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To be honest, I thought I'd hate the idea, assuming that if I'd thought of all the ideas at the outset I'd have to incentive to actually write the book, because for me part of the joy of writing are the surprises you come upon as the book takes shape. But something curious and exciting happened. As I wrote the outline, some sections would be very detailed, others quite sketchy, so that whole portions of the book would be covered by one line, such as "Bourne is chased by Khan through Budapest," which when I wrote the novel turned out to be 40-50 pages! Now I'll never write a novel without first doing an outline. Looking back on it, I used to get bogged down in extraneous characters and situations, especially during the first 100 pages (which I find the most difficult to write) that I would later have to scrap, wasting time and energy, and frustrating me. Now that never happens.
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You said love, I say chemical imbalance.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!
