"I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different"
- Barry Watson
About this Quote
In this quote, star Barry Watson assesses his childhood maturing in Dallas. He points out that he was surrounded by cowboys, which suggests that the city had a strong western culture. Nevertheless, Watson stood apart from the crowd as he was the only kid in his 6th grade class to have long hair and an earring. This made him various from the conventional picture of a cowboy and he faced criticism and teasing from his peers. Making use of the word "flak" indicates that the remarks and reactions he got were unfavorable and hurtful. Despite this, Watson welcomes his uniqueness and acknowledges that it was hard being different in a society that values conformity.
This quote is written / told by Barry Watson somewhere between April 23, 1974 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed"
"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination"
"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so"
"In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams"
"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress"
"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement"
