Barbara Park Quotes

I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.

Barbara Park

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EducationFatherHomeTimeTalking

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

Jennifer Gilmore

GreatSayWantOpenGeneralWorks

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

Anderson East

MeHardOpenStrangerHonestReally

I believe we should always put our country first.

John McCain

BelieveCountryI BelieveFirstOur

Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

Jeff Duncan

BadNobodyBad GuyGuySaddam

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Stephen Kinzer

AmericaSettleIcelandWhereOffense

I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.

Joyce Meyer

HappinessHappyPeopleMeBe Happy

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

Chris LeDoux

BathCreekStayWorthwhileStuff

We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.

Christopher Meloni

RespectPeopleProcessSayWaySome

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Cheryl Hines

MeLaughComedySeeingTalkHim

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Bruce Springsteen

MusicWritingLongFindI CanGo

Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

Ally Carter

TodayTeenGrowing UpSmallGrowing

I'm not very good at cooking, and I'm away all the time, and I like transient living. I get really itchy feet if I stay in one place.

Alison Goldfrapp

GoodTimeCookingFeetPlaceLiving

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