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Julian Barnes Quotes

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Look Us Psychic Shock Ourselves

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Love Truth Create Emotional Fiction

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

Technology Storm Generation New Need

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

People Me Care Wonder Use Term

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

Michael Douglas

Live Time Rain Black Magic You

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

Birthday Moment Cake You Bar Big

I would love to do my own stunts, but stunts are not something I have a lot of experience with.

Love Experience My Own Own Something

Since I was sent to an orphanage, and I saw very little of my mother, I can counsel mothers that you shouldn't abandon your children. Before you bring a child into the world, think deeply about things, so that they lack absolutely nothing, least of all love.

Love Mother Children Child World

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Father Home Hero Me Boy Shy

Always remember those things that tend to strengthen and improve your understanding. You cannot learn without attention, neither retain those lessons that you have once learnt without frequently reflecting upon and reviewing them in your mind; by this means, things long past will remain impressed upon your memory.

Past Memory Mind Learn Understanding

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

David Steinberg

Good People Comedy Rejection You

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

Christian Louboutin

Shoes Heels Point Wear Dancers Used

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Great People Listening Saying Think

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