Barnaby C. Keeney Quotes

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Barnaby C. Keeney

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If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

John Darnielle

WorkWritingYouBackDownNobody

There were some articles written about our marriage, mythologising it, making it into the greatest love story ever told.

Megan Mullally

LoveMarriageStoryGreatestSome

Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

John Logan

GreatDinnerYouKnowWantWorking

To me, it doesn't matter who's out there: NBA basketball is great - if teams are putting out their best players and they're competing to win.

Jeff Van Gundy

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California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

Stuart Rothenberg

GoodRestCountryCaliforniaGoing

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.

Roger Rosenblatt

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It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Rory Bremner

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He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.

Ronald Steel

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Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

Joko Beck

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Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

Dean Rusk

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Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Bob Dylan

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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Aristotle

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