Barry Long Quotes

There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.

Barry Long

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• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Time
  • You
  • Right Time

• I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Bad
  • Support
  • Acting

• I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Star

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Fear
  • Waiting
  • Inspired

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Problem

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Positive
  • Negative
  • Stronger

• Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Men
  • May
  • House

• You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time

• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Real
  • Art
  • Reality

• Tell this imprisoned soul that it will never be owned. Nothing will ever own you. But God.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • God
  • Soul

• In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Solitude
  • Crowds

• I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.

  

  Eddie Jemison
  • Word
  • Films
  • Picking up

• There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.

  

  Barry Long
  • Existence
  • Mystery
  • Illusion