Annie Barrows Quotes
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is based on me when I was a little girl. The fact is, though, that Junie B. and I have very little in common.
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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.
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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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If the remonstrance had been rejected I would have sold all I had the next morning and never have seen England more, and I know there are many other modest men of the same resolution.
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The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?
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When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
