Barbara Park Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.
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To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.
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Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It helps you get into the American accent.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
