Barbara Demick Quotes
By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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I knew from being pregnant that you can be very strong. You're still very capable. Especially if it was stuff you were able to do before.
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I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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After 'Click, Clack, Moo' was published, I was still practicing law and had no plans to make a career change.
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MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
