Al Barry Quotes

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

We had already beaten them 4-0 and 7-0 earlier this season, so we knew we were in for a really tough game today.

In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.

It's the opposite of that. Engineers in lab coats have created a musical experience that is so crisp and clean, it can literally improve your hearing.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president . . . except me.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

In your heart you know he's right.

I'm the most underdog underdog there is.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

Some programs have been theatrical masterpieces, but all we're seeing is the negative side of nuclear war.

If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I never pulled a loaded pistol on anybody, but it got around that I did. It got turned into lore. It's a myth. There's so much bad gun stuff.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

I always intended to be light and open. I misjudged the American audience.

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!"

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

There are a lot of things I'm proud of, but the proudest have yet to come.

The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

'Immortality is only for the gods,' he whispered. 'I wonder how they can stand it.'

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

When it's in the slot, give it the lot!

Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.

All writing begins in the sea of experience.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

No one really has the power, and everybody's trying to get through the day, and everybody's nervous and desperate.

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.