Pat Barker Quotes
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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I wrote that letter, and the one to Nixon. And I wrote more letters, and I thought it might be a magazine article. At that time I sent it to Esquire and Playboy, but anyway, I kept writing, and all of sudden I had enough and thought, well maybe it is a book.
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Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
