Andrea Barrett Quotes
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
Andrea Barrett
Quotes to Explore
It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt
Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
Zooey Deschanel
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
Jack Ma
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
Ian St. John
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?
Walt Whitman
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
Candace Cameron Bure
It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.
Ralph Steadman
We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections.
Jack Straw
I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
Albert Serra
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
Andrea Barrett
