Andrea Barrett Quotes
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
