Red Barber Quotes
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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I love writing songs.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.
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It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
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The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me.
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I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
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I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
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Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
