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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If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.
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There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
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Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.
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I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.
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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.
