Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

Jack Black
- Parents
- Feel
- Wrong
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

Ornette Coleman
- Thinking
- Words
- Saying
At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.

Indra Nooyi
- Mother
- Day
- Wife
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

Taylor Hicks
- Life
- Up
- Good
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

Carl Hagelin
- American
- Me
- English
Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

Valentino Rossi
- Career
- Enjoy
- motivation