Annie Barrows Quotes
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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The battle of getting better is never ending.
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As I told the kids on the way home, this conference is tough. We have to build mental as well as physical toughness to be competitive.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better.
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You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
