Barry Lopez Quotes
People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen. And not just a serious U.S. accident, but a serious global accident.
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Children do best when their parents live together in stable relationships, when two incomes can be a catalyst for opportunity.
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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When I do my hair down, it just does not look good. It's just stringy, and it's like a hot mess.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
