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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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 -
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 -
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 -
Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
Rakul Preet Singh -
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
Garik Israelian
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I didn't really enjoy school in general.
Jacob Batalon -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln -
The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood
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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 -
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
Marilyn Ferguson
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
Stevie Wonder -
Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.
Fleur East -
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Jodi Picoult -
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