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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A new era of responsibility is here.
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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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A day with my kids is the best day.
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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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Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them. Obviously, because it is more salient, you know? We might like going to the movies, and of course we like music too, but when the eyes don't work then the ears pick up slack. Music is all the sweeter at that point.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths.
