Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I love bayou life.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
