Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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My personality is extremely unbalanced.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
