Barry Gallagher Quotes
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I love what I do.
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!
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I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.
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I'm very protective of my heart
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Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo? I didn’t.
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Biologists now pretty universally regard vitalism as a vestige of a bygone age.
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Pajamas are good for the soul.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
