Barbara Walters Quotes
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.I just can't seem to get you off my mind.Crying, waiting, hoping, that you'll come back.You're the one I love and I think about you all the time.
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Podcasting is a personal medium, and I savour those moments where details of the podcasters' lives glint through.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
