Pat Barker Quotes
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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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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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I don't like attacking.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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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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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
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Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.
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When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.
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Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.
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When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With a real historical figure you have to be fair, and this is not an obligation you have in dealing with your own creations, so it is quite different.
