Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
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Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
