Red Barber Quotes
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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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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 first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
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If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.
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No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.
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I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.
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Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
