Barbara Park Quotes

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
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• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
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• I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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  • Chance

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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  • You
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• You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

  

  Victor Ponta
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  • See
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• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
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• When you do acoustic shows, there's always a more intimate vibe. I go into them with lowered expectations and assume that people don't want to hear me.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Me
  • Expectations

• I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
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  • Love

• You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Good
  • Day
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• 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

  

  Imelda May
  • Me
  • Company
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• If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

  

  Valerie June
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  • Me
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• I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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  • Fashion
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• Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
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  • Growing

• Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.

  

  Andrew Dominik
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• I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

  

  Antoinette Perry
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• My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

  

  Eloise Mumford
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  • World
  • Family

• Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
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• I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

  

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