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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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.
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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.
