Barbara Mertz Quotes
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.
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Our directives must be reassessed.
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The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.