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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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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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'm still figuring out who I am. But at least I know what I want.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
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When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.
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A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.
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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.
