Barbara Kingsolver Quotes
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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In India, there's a way of seeing life as a cosmic play. It's called Lila. I can watch my life, and I can see my guru playing with me.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
