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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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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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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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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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
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People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'?
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We tour, we do the distance from friends and family, not really knowing how to connect with people on the same level. I've understood now, as much as we tour, we live day-to-day, so our lives are much different than the people who stay at home and go home every night.
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I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.
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I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in.
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
