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Julian Barnes Quotes

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: January 19, 1946

Topics

Life You Say She Things Where

I'm a small-time white kid trying to represent hip-hop. If a hip-hop artist comes up and beats me in a battle, who did they beat? A small-town white kid who ain't never been an MC, who ain't never done nothing. Now if an MC comes to battle and they get beat by a small-town white boy, that's MC suicide.

Me Battle Suicide Trying Artist Boy

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

Heart Me Evil America Will Indians

In the bit of painting that I've done, I'm interested in colour and texture. I'm very interested in transparency.

Painting Transparency Done Colour

I quickly learned that asking if an interview space was wheelchair accessible was a bad idea; it gave a potential employer an immediate bad impression. It was either a black mark against my name, or a straight up discussion of why I wouldn't be able to work there because they had no wheelchair access.

Work Space Black Potential Name Bad

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Music Experience People Think You

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

Gay Shepherd Lord Knows He

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

Democracy American Plan Mercy Way

I feel like, with a television show, you're always biting your nails hoping you're going to get that next season.

Feel You Television Nails Always

I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.

Life Family Business Health Me Care

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland

Family Knowledge History People Care

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

Denise Richards

Marriage Why She Her Knows Heather

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Day People Start You Say Kind

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