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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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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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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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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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
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The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.
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You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.
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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.
