Barbara Stocking Quotes
Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.
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A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity.
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They went to sea in a sieve, they did;In a sieve they went to sea;In spite of all their friends could say.
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Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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I never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
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I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.
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I was kind of a tough girl. And I guess that came through, like, moving around, my parents getting a divorce, different step-families, and stuff like that. I'd been through a little bit more than most people who are just from Laguna Beach.
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I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.
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I am a great champion.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.
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Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.
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You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
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Despite the fact that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, there are more hungry people today than when the world last met in Rio in 1992.
