Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
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The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I'm not super into sports.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
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We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.
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I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
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Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
