Julia Barr Quotes
Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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A person's portrayal on TV isn't always how someone is.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.
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I'm a good friend.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.
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I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don't, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.
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My family's a ruling family.
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The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
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Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values is honesty.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.
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Working with my husband, I thought we would be at each other. As close as we are, our styles are so different. But it didn't happen - we were surprised.
