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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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.
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You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.
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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.
