Pat Barker Quotes

That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.

Pat Barker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterRelationshipBalanceThink

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

John Foster Dulles

FaceBrinkLookedWalked

We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there.

Andrea Jung

BusinessWillMoreNeverAlwaysBuy

Money speaks in Utah.

Robert Redford

MoneyUtahSpeaks

When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussion, and I knocked my teeth out. That was the first time that I got seriously injured, and I was taken to the hospital in an ambulance, and my parents briefly doubted.

Tony Hawk

TimeParentsSeriouslyTeethTopUp

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

Mona Eltahawy

JudgeValuesCountryConservative

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Lucy Hale

LifeI AmMeYouImageSee

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Judd Gregg

GoodCommunitySafetyYouProtection

Rapid response is essential in the fight against hate.

Bonnie Hammer

HateFightAgainstResponseRapid

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

Anna Wintour

JobMeFashionLongFirstFired

I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

Ali Fazal

BelieveLearnYouActingClassroom

I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.

Alice Waters

HealthBalanceThinkFindingTable

I have this memory of being 15 years old, sitting with a friend on the steps of a little bookstore on Bloor Street in Toronto and saying, 'I'll never take money for my writing!' I had such idealism about this idea of trading your soul for money.

Sheila Heti

FriendMoneySoulMemoryWriting

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