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.

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• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Drinking
  • Drink
  • Smoking

• You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Protect

• There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Complex

• I didn't really enjoy school in general.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • School
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Girl
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Live
  • Old

• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • World
  • Seeing
  • Hearing

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• 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
  • History
  • Inspiration
  • Strength

• I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Health

• Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Fun
  • Hurt
  • Nobody

• Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Moving
  • Model
  • Evolve

• I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.

• Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Good

• Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.

  

  Brendan I. Koerner
  • American
  • Society

• Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Writing
  • Firsts
  • Editing

• 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
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Mean