Pat Barker Quotes

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

Pat Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 8, 1943

Topics

GoodAgeHistoryThinkThought

We owe our law enforcement officers the highest respect.

John Fleming

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I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

John Cleese

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All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

John Lydon

EducationMeSocietyThoughtYou

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Ronnie Barker

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If you are in a band like my brother, Rudolf, who is in the Scorpions, then you have a kind of umbrella and you cover each other. You have five people to discuss things with and you are all in the same boat, and therefore make much wiser choices.

Michael Schenker

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A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Mitch Kapor

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My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

Jayne Meadows

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Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.

Dennis Edwards

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Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

Alicia Keys

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I was on the set of 'Braveheart' and my mate says to me, 'Do you think this film will be any good?' And I really meant this, too, I told him 'Let me put it this way - It won't win any awards.' Cut to: five Oscars.

Peter Mullan

GoodMeWinThinkYouWay

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Mario Batali

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