"I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Damian Barr

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.”

Source : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.
“Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.”
“A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.”
“How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.”
“While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.”
“I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?”
“It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.”
“You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.”

Source : "Actor-director Kevin Bacon". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2013.

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