Robyn Barrere:
CLASS OF 1978
Lafayette High SchoolClass of 1978
Lafayette, LA
Robyn's Story
Robyn is from Lafayette, Louisiana. Robyn's schools include Lafayette High School. Robyn later attended University of North Texas (Marketing) .
Music Robyn likes includes Van Morrison, Bad Lip Reading, Clay McClinton. Books Robyn likes include South of Broad, The Lords of Discipline, Beach Music. Movies Robyn likes include Breaking The Press: The Movie, Seven Days in Utopia, Lights Out in Blackham. TV shows Robyn likes include History, Private Practice, Parenthood.
One of Robyn's favorite quotes is:"Gordon Gekko: "I'll tell you what, I'll make you a deal Bretton. You stop telling lies about me. I'll stop telling the truth about you."
"I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world."
â Pat Conroy
"â¦Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speakâand then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from usâ¦Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch."
â Pat Conroy (Beach Music)
"The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
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ing out. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the
genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.
Because of them I rode with Don Quixote and danced with Anna Karenina at a
ball in St. Petersburg and lassoed a steer in "Lonesome Dove" and had
nightmares about slavery in "Beloved" and walked the streets of Dublin in
"Ulysses" and made up a hundred stories in the Arabian nights and saw my
mother killed by a baseball in "A Prayer for Owen Meany." I've been in ten
thousand cities and have introduced myself to a hundred thousand strangers
in my exuberant reading career, all because I listened to my fabulous
English teachers and soaked up every single thing those magnificent men and
women had to give. I cherish and praise them and thank them for finding me
when I was a boy and presenting me with the precious gift of the English
language. "
â Pat Conroy
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough."
â Pat Conroy (Beach Music
"As we took the court for the second half, I made a secret now to myself that I would never listen to a single thing that Mel Thompson said to me again. I would obey him and honor him and follow him, but I would not let him touch the core of me again. He was my coach, but I was my master. "
â Pat Conroy (My Losing Season)".
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