Barbara Park Quotes

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

Barbara Park

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1947 - November 15, 2013

Topics

Black And WhiteWorldNegativeThink

Somewhere down the road, if a Senate seat were to open, yeah, it's something I'd certainly take a look at. But that's got to be right in time for me and my family.

Joe Kennedy III

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Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Joan Rivers

FunnyLearningSmallLearnComedy

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

John Bolton

WarPeopleThinkYouSayMore

I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.

John Green

LifeLoveTimeLove IsValuePeople

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

John Drinkwater

LifePerfectPoetWordHeSelection

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

John Oliver

BritishPessimism

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

Max Levchin

PeopleThinkMediaInformationWant

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.

Michael Hayden

BusinessRelationshipGovernmentKey

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Stephen Ambrose

MenWhiteCountryTennesseeWhoHis

I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes.

Stan Lee

AlwaysHeroesMinorityStoriesOften

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

Truman Capote

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Bun E.'s a member of the band, but he's not touring, and he's not recording... We've had our differences, but we're all settled up now, and hopefully we can forget about that era. These decisions that Cheap Trick makes, Bun E. is part of.

Robin Zander

DecisionsDifferencesForgetNowUp

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