Pat Barker Quotes
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.Pat Barker
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch -
I hate jeans for no reason.
Park Chan-wook -
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman -
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
Francesca Annis -
Better to be disliked than pitied.
Abba Eban
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley -
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
Jack Dangermond -
I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. Coetzee -
When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
Sakshi Tanwar -
The women putting their lives at risk for our country deserve better than to be treated as second-class citizens.
Tammy Duckworth
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra -
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell -
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
Larry Hagman -
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed. It's cold; it's winter.' But they were worn. They were black underneath, and they stunk, and I hate feet. She was like, 'I'm giving you my favorite pair.'
Ella Henderson -
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.
Ibrahim Hooper -
I've been using makeup since I was ten years old. I've learned a lot of do's and don'ts over the years. But one would definitely be that you should do your makeup for the occasion.
Becky G -
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys -
There are, in fact, apps you can use to measure how many times you check your phone, and I shudder to think how many times I check my phone. I'm sure it would be probably in the hundreds of times that I check over the course of the day.
Franklin Foer -
What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
Pat Barker