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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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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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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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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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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Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
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If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
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Over and over, we begin again.
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The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.
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You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.
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Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
