Colleen Barrett Quotes
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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The Iraqis have once again failed to meet a deadline for a final draft of the constitution.
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There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.
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Bush is no conservative.
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It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity.
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Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends.
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I don't want to hide anything - there is nothing to hide.
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I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
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I'm wired differently.
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You could do a scene that takes 15 hours, but in the movie, it's only 10 minutes. The scene where they put the sauce poisoning in; it took eight hours.
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I'm a real lazy, slow kind of person.
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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
