Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
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There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
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The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
