Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
Pat Mastelotto
Mr. Mister
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett
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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.
Ed Harris
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
Rakul Preet Singh
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So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
Randi Weingarten
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
Zinedine Zidane
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
Laura Prepon
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles
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What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.
Katee Sackhoff
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
Gary Lineker
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey
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I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.
Ian Anderson
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
Gary Oldman
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Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have to try so hard as an actor; you don't have to do so much. Just let the material sit inside you and let it come out. Just say the words. That was the main thing that I learned from doing Aaron Sorkin's work - say the words, and everything else will happen.
Dule Hill
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Everything counts! Everything you do helps or hurts, adds up or takes away.
Brian Tracy
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
E. J. Hughes
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This gets better, it really does. The odd thing is, I actually think you might be telling the truth. If you were going to lie, you’d at least come up with something that made sense.
Alastair Reynolds
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
