Emily Barton Quotes

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

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• I feel like we all have our skeletons.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Like
  • Feel
  • I Feel Like

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Learn

• If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Dreamer
  • Rising
  • Pisces

• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Animals

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Film
  • Story
  • Movies

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • High
  • Measure
  • Fraud

• People see images now more than they see movies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Movies
  • Now

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Men
  • Real
  • May

• It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because they don't fit tidily into a box. And more and more, the modern world is all about conformity.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I feel simultaneously completely vulnerable and made wholly brave by becoming a parent. It has changed the way that I live my life. Because I want to be an example for my son.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Life
  • Live
  • Son

• The point here is not just that an image represents God as having body and parts, whereas in reality he has neither. But the point really goes much deeper. The heart of the objection to pictures and images is that they inevitably conceal most, if not all, of the truth about the personal nature and character of the divine Being whom they represent.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Character

• In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That's right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and whatever it is I have.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Help
  • Brain

• It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.

  

  Jay Asher
  • School
  • Book
  • Funny

• In 1970 or '71, early in the magazine, Michael O'Donoghue did maybe eight pages of a 1958 yearbook, from Ezra Taft Benson High School. But by the time the [book-length] high-school yearbook came around, he didn't want to be involved.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • School
  • Book

• It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

  

  Emily Barton
  • Book
  • Working