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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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 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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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.
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The world always seems like it's going to hell when you're depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That's what makes it so hard to tell the difference between Armageddon and the blues.
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It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
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I'm not scared about saying what I think.
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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.
