Nevada Barr Quotes
“When she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”
Quotes to Explore
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.
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“When she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”
