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.
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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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My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awesome. When you go to Los Angeles, it's a rough city, and it's hard. You drive around in your car in your own little bubble, and there's tons of rejection. Being from the Lehigh Valley helped because it was something so stable.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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We are no more prepared to encounter radio and TV in our literate milieu than the native of Ghana is able to cope with the literacy that takes him out of his collective tribal world and beaches him in individual isolation. (xx)
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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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.
