Barbara Mertz Quotes
I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
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I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
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Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
