Nicola Barker Quotes
Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.
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Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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I enjoy money.
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
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All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.
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Wisdom sits aloneTopmost in Heaven.
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Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!
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That he, in his developed manhood, stoodA little sunburnt by the glare of life;While I . . it seemed no sun had shone on me.
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Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
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Instinct is the direct connection with truth.
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I like anything sweet.
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I'm a sucker for a good country song.
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
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I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.
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A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
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If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us to the lie.
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You think of rock ‘n’ roll and you think of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, You think of tons of strippers and mounds of cocaine and people destroying hotel rooms and stuff like that. But none of that happens with us. At least not yet, We’ve destroyed dressing rooms…but it was with fruit.
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Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
