Alice Barrett quotes

“In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.”
-- Alice Barrett

Source : "Back Where She Belongs: AW's Alice Barrett-Mitchell" by Meg McCaffrey, www.anotherworldhomepage.com. March 17, 1999.

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“So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“But this is called show business, not show family.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“It's not an easy thing to be let go.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“Professionally, I decided to commit a lot of my time to California because there wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“So I'm very grateful for everything that has happened in my life.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.”
-- Alice Barrett

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“I'm no good with words but I'll find ways from time to time to show you how grateful I am.”

“We are all shades of gray. Its been said again and again; Lifes a process we are fleeting moments that come and go, and I'm grateful for my time, my aspirations, my mistakes, my flaws and my abilities, think of me what you will but before you do, don't.”

“In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.”

“For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

“It's been a hard time to celebrate, to come out with a smile. But I'm an American. Naomi asked me to come out to support other Americans, and here I am.”

“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”

Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016.

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“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”

“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press