Barbara Hamby Quotes
When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.
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Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.
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Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.
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There are so many things where I realize, like, simple circumstance, like the simple choice that I made one night to not do that and to do this, one night could have changed everything.
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I don't like all of the contemporary country. I like some of it, but I'm mostly into the traditional style.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.
