Barry Unsworth Quotes
I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I was a tomboy.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?
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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
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A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.
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I missed you all my life,” Kylie said. “I didn’t know I missed you, but I know it now. You were supposed to be there.
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I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.
