Barbara Wood Quotes
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
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I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.
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I support the French team - I go to all their matches - but I don't want to use sport for politics. That's not good for sport or for politics.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I did all this standup comedy in college, and from that point on, I tried to develop myself and get my name back out there.
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To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
