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.Damian Barr
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence -
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.
Laura Wasser -
Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
Gail Carson Levine -
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin -
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
Victoria Azarenka -
In life, sometimes you just lose.
Karen Handel
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I never read about photography.
Sally Mann -
I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.
Earl Hamner, Jr. -
I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
Kabir Bedi -
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.
Kate Thompson -
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Oscar Wilde -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
Randy Owen -
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.
Dan Lipinski -
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons -
Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
Karen Finerman -
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
Ian Mcewan -
Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
L. E. Modesitt -
I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
Paloma Picasso -
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama -
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne -
Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
Sam Levenson -
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.
Damian Barr