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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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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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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I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.
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Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
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So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
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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.
