Andrea Barrett Quotes
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.
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It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
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I think I'm always changing as a writer and trying new things.
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My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties.
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My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.
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My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.
