Barry Unsworth Quotes

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.

Barry Unsworth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 10, 1930 - June 4, 2012

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LiveYouConsequencesPerfectProfit

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

Jim Jordan

EducationChallengeCulturePolitics

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

John Burnside

TimeIsolationQuietImportant

Eric Young is an excellent heel. I think Eric Young is a really, really good heel because he does things intentionally so that you don't want to cheer him, you don't want to get behind him, and you don't want to support him.

Matt Hardy

GoodSupportThinkYouYoungWant

I fought all my life to be at Real Madrid, to try to be in the starting XI.

Alvaro Morata

LifeMy LifeTryRealStarting

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

Alvin Lee

FreedomPeopleSearchingAlwaysBeen

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

Steven Wright

WaveYouBackHeatSawWould

Whatever success I have found has been a collaborative effort of people helping out and opening their minds and being accepting and celebrating who I am.

Troye Sivan

SuccessI AmEffortPeopleOpening

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

Michael Patrick King

WomenMeWritingKnowWayRoom

In my early twenties, the whole experience of going on tour was like losing myself in this slightly wild environment.

Johnny Flynn

MyselfExperienceLosingEarlyWild

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Diogenes

IgnoranceKnowNothingFactExcept

Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

Clemantine Wamariya

ForgivenessPastMeWashAway

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Bonnie Tyler

DrinkNeverUpOffSingCome

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