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.

Nicola Barker

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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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• 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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• 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 had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

  

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• I have a lot of respect for marriage.

  

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• The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.

  

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• It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

  

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• I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.

  

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• 'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'

  

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• Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights. . . . Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.

  

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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.

  

  Nicola Barker
  • Dog
  • Trained
  • Modernity