Barry Lyga Quotes
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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My personal life is also cinema.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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Reach for the stars not drugs.
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On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting.
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In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long time.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
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It's only when you're privy to the conversations and a member of the production team that you can direct the course of a series and make sure it flourishes.
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There are very few people I would trust to look after my children.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.
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Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
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We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
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I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
