Damian Barr Quotes
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started to challenge what I thought I knew about myself, my culture, my family, all of it. It was a huge, destroying process that completely took over my life. I just wasn't here, I mean I was physically present, but I wasn't here, I was back in the 1980s.
Damian Barr
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I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.
Dakota Fanning
I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
Hampton Sides
I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
Kate Winslet
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
Gail Parent
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
Nora Lum
I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.
Annia Ciezadlo
I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
Octavia Spencer
I was born a singer. I need to do that.
Nana Mouskouri
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
Ray Bradbury
The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are very often not really what happened. And as I started to write stuff down, I started to challenge what I thought I knew about myself, my culture, my family, all of it. It was a huge, destroying process that completely took over my life. I just wasn't here, I mean I was physically present, but I wasn't here, I was back in the 1980s.
Damian Barr