Barry Lyga Quotes
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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I've never been good at saying no.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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I want it all - and I would like it delivered.
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The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
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To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
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I still like some of the stuff, skateboarding. Just stupid things.
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The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
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It's a challenge for any writer to write beyond what he knows. You get material, adapt it, and do the best you can with it.
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One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you're never going to match up and that everybody else's life is going to be better and finer and fuller. That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited. And the point of great writers like Wilde is that they make that invitation to you.
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When I started understanding how science works, it occurred to me that there just is no evidence that there is a God.
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Josh Mendel has a secret. Unfortunately, everyone knows what it is.
