Barry Unsworth Quotes
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I don't know what love means.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
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Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
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forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail
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You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
