Kevin Barry Quotes

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.

Kevin Barry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.

Andrew Sean Greer

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

Jean Kerr

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It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function.

Steve Martin

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There was a time when radio stations wouldn't play Gaga's music because it was considered dance. Outside of live performances, the Internet became our primary tool to help people discover her music.

Troy Carter

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I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Tracy Morgan

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It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

Tom Felton

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When you're coming up, and you have Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, Jens Pulver and Pat Miletich, Jeremy Horn to train with and compete with - guys that have fought in Japan, all over the world - and you see these guys every day, you just embrace the grind and get after it: you have no choice but to succeed.

Robbie Lawler

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He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

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Yes, a general principle that comes out of research behind Good to Eat is that there are no world religions that have acted to decrease the potential for the nutritional well-being of their followers.

Marvin Harris

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I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

Mike Birbiglia

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From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

Miriam Margolyes

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