Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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'Perhaps our reservoir of spiritual faith has run out.''Perhaps it should have run out a long time ago,' I said sternly. 'Superstition has taken a terrible toll on our species. Wars...pogroms...resistance to logic and science and medicine...not to mention gathering power in the hands of people like those who run the Pax.'
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I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
