Barbara Demick Quotes
China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Central bankers have had enormous responsibilities thrust on them to compensate, essentially, for the failings of the political system. And my worry is we don't have sufficient tools to do that, but we're not willing to say it.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
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There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in her own party, then she's going to have to put down the [Donald] Trump rebellion and then try to govern.
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If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
