Kevin Barry Quotes

One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.

Kevin Barry

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: 1969

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I spend time in the classroom. I think more of them aren't political science than are political science. I particularly like talking to journalism students.

Jim Edgar

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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

Jim Woodring

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If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.

Amy Bloom

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The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Rudolph Valentino

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You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

Rumer Willis

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My mom just wanted me to do anything that was academic, whether it was become a doctor or be a lawyer. Engineering suited her... then I dropped out. It was not what I wanted to do at all; it just felt so unnatural, and I couldn't put my finger on why. I just knew it wasn't for me.

Ross Butler

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I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

Michelle Dockery

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The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

Anthea Butler

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Once you're in the military, she means a lot more to you than just a grandmother. She is the queen. And then you suddenly, it's like start realizing, you know, wow, this is quite a big deal. And then you get goose bumps and then the rest of it.

Prince Harry

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We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

Peter Bondra

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People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining.

Tyler Oakley

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