Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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Every American soldier wants as much public support as he can possibly have. That's the soldiers on duty in Iraq, and that's me, as well. We fight better knowing that our people back home support us, back us, and understand what we're doing. It's hugely important.
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The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s.
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Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
