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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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.
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We are going to use the truth, and we are going to use it toward the end of winning the war; and we know what would happen to the American people if we lose it.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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I'm an actor's director.
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If I can recover the sovereignty, I think Europe will change completely. It will change radically. And if I cannot the sovereignty back, then I will ask the French people to leave the E.U.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
