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 have a lot of respect for marriage.

  

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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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• I come prepared with the white suit and stethoscope, Listen to your heartbeat, delete beep beep BEEP. Your insurance is high, but my price is cheap.

  

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• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

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• I love playing with my dog and just sitting on the patio with people I don't get to see very often anymore. I'm a pretty simple gal.

  

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• As far as creating my own theme park, it would probably just have to do with things I like, like my dog and other people's dogs, and lots of dogs and cats.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
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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