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 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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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
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As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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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.
