K. K. Barrett Quotes
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When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.
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If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them.
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People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale. And the opposite is true - if everyone wants to make your movie, that's a sign that it probably sucks.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.
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Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
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Ignoring the expectations is what leads you realize the true potential
