Andrea Barrett Quotes

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

Andrea Barrett

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Wish
  • Speak
  • Chinese

• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Beauty
  • Most
  • Distress

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Moment

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Lucky
  • Anything

• Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Elegance
  • Forgetting

• I keep saying I'm going to cut back on styling, but it's hard to give up.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Up
  • Give
  • Back

• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Star
  • Romantic
  • Brave

• When I feel comfortable, I just like to sing and hum, and I don't even know I'm doing it. But sometimes someone will come over to me like, 'I love that song you were singing, but it's distracting.'

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Love
  • Song
  • Singing

• I hate the feeling of having hair on my neck.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Hair

• The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Wealth

• I met Kim Kardashian the other week, and she knew who I was! I walked in the room, and she was like, 'I should text Kanye saying you're here; he showed me your music.' It's really hard to digest. Also, I don't think you should digest stuff like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • She
  • Week

• Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Freedom
  • Alone
  • Being Alone

• I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Never
  • Place

• In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Rock
  • Perseverance

• There is not one thing that's Beatle music. How can they talk about it like that? What is Beatle music? Walrus or Penny Lane? Which? It's too diverse: I Want to Hold Your Hand or Revolution Number Nine?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Walrus
  • Beatle music
  • Penny Lane

• Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

  

  P.J. Wolfson
  • Long

• For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

  

  Andrea Barrett