Pat Barker Quotes
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I think that liberals need to grow up.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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It doesn't mean a thing when others tell you you're good. You have to feel it yourself.
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The most difficult thing is when you can’t do anything. When you just have to wait.
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
