Barry Pain Quotes
The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
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the sword also means clean-ness + death
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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Economics profession, they've been - they've been confident in various formulas, but economics is not physics. The same formula that works in one decade doesn't work in the next. Economics is a difficult subject.
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Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
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Founders are often great storytellers because they're in the business of constantly selling a dream against all odds.
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I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
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Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
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The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, grey-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
