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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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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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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My own writing has perhaps more of an American flavor than a British one, but that's because the stories I've so far written have needed it. 'Empire State,' 'Seven Wonders' and 'The Age Atomic' are all very place-centric, where the setting itself is almost a character. But there is a universality to story that isn't just limited to science fiction.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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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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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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When I'm on television, I'm talking to millions of people, so the conversation is totally different. My words are different. My diction is different because now I'm really talking American English and not homeboy English.
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I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
