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.Pat Barker
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Pat Cadigan -
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler -
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi -
The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson -
Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
Ian Lustick -
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs
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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.
Walter Gropius -
I don't like attacking.
Barbara Bush -
I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
Kajal Aggarwal -
Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Jackie Chan -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland
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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.
Patrick Lencioni -
A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
Bassem Youssef -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines -
I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
Daniel Gillies -
I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
Palmer Luckey -
I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
Walter Hill
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton -
Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
Sam Altman -
If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
Yair Lapid -
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
Maya Lin -
What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press.
Terry Eagleton -
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.
Pat Barker