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Barry Unsworth Quotes

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Perception Story Pressure Unique

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Eyes See Hardest Your Front Thing

I saw 'Taxi Driver,' and 'Taxi Driver' kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, 'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Who the hell else are you talkin' to?' That's the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.

Life Attitude Mirror Me Saying Hell

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values.

Simon Mainwaring

Leader Vision Effort Writing Brand

I'm not a theoretician about playwriting, but I have a strong sense that plays have to be pitched - the scene, the line, the word - at the exact point where the audience has just the right amount of information. It's like Occam's razor.

Strong Information Right Line Point

There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.

Family Church America Remember Way

I want people to perceive me as a guy who wants it. That I play the game with passion and desire. That I'm athletic, that I'm fast, and I'm relentless.

Passion People Me Game Fast Play

As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.

Walk Fashion Reading You Find Down

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

Experience Past Unhappy Enough Own

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

Brian O'Driscoll

Life Good Home Live Great People

I like flesh. I do! Something to hold.

Antonio Banderas

Hold Something Like Flesh

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Music Think Thought Intellectual

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Alone Being Alone You Tragedy Know

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