Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
Quotes to Explore
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.
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To be honest, I didn't really understand how involved putting a fragrance together could be - or would be. Once I made the choice to actually do it, I just went for it. I just dove in and have really learned a lot about putting a scent together. It's kind of exciting.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.
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I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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No one wants to wear clothes that were made from someone's blood.
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If we do our job right, then we have everything to stand on. If we don't do our job, we have everything to lose on.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
