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 have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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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 love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I always say the next one is my favorite.
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It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
