Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
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I'm thrilled with my body of work.
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There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.
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What people don't realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you're being bullied by millions of people constantly.
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Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
