Barbara Demick Quotes
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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I avoid any kind of organised trips as that's one of my bugbears.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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in the future, there are definitely lots of time to be together, let's always be together! all of btob members are happy to be btob! don't be sorry to us, instead of that, let's work hard like right now!!!!
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
