Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
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Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
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The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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Other than my family and my close friends, there's nothing I love more than owning the team and doing everything I can to make it a success. That's how I live. That is me.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
