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Julian Barnes Quotes

I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Hate Serious Way Being English

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Questions Answers Get Hypothetical

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

New York City America New Sometimes

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Future Think You Want Ahead Hang

I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time.

Time School Me Sister Game Play

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Love Shoes Walk Someone Doing You

Reading an audio book is a very odd experience because there are three people sitting out there while you're reading in this glass booth, and you can see their reactions.

Experience People Book Reading You

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Life Night Down Manager First Opera

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Miguel de Cervantes

Good Sea Water Doing Doing Good

I hadn't seen 'Bride of Frankenstein' until high school or maybe even later than that. It's really one of the great movie experiences where you think you know what it's going to be, but it's so much weirder and so much better than anything you could've imagined. It's so full of these striking, powerful images.

Great School Think Bride Better You

A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Friend Music People Mind Me Voice

Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

Change Doing Trying Why Way Stage

To be with the other two-time gold medalists is great, but it's great to just be a decathlete.

Great Gold Just Other Just Be

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