Damian Barr Quotes
I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I never read about photography.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.
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I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.