Susan Barker Quotes
You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
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Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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This image of four spectra is taken from one of Huggins's publications. ...You can see that the Comet Winnecke resembles olive oil more than it does Comet Brorsen.
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You can see the walls roarSee your brains on the floorBecome GodBecome crippleBecome funky
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We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
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I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.
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I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.
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Men are much more agressive with their advances.
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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
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This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need of conscious observation. In this respect at least the pupil makes himself independent of all conscious purpose.
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
