Barry Blitt Quotes
If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor and being a writer is the great privilege of having an intimate view of one's fellow humans, the privilege of being there and helping other people at their most vulnerable moments.
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If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.
