Damian Barr Quotes
I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Architecture begins where engineering ends.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
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It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.
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A lot of people don't love their bank.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
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I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy.
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I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.
