Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
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I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
