Barbara Mertz Quotes

Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

Barbara Mertz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1927

Topics

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As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

John Battelle

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I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.

Amy Heckerling

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It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

Steve Jobs

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I feel, in a way, on a record, you can be more subtle. In the live setting, everything gets amplified. The dynamics are more extreme in concert.

Sondre Lerche

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If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.

Trombone Shorty

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Every medal I have won is a story of a difficult struggle.

Mary Kom

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Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.

Mary Pilon

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Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

Mike Myers

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As I travel across Illinois and talk with people, and as others reach out to my office desperate for help, I am becoming convinced that, despite their rhetoric, many lenders have no interest in actually helping their customers.

Lisa Madigan

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Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage.

Douglas Coupland

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I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

Donna Karan

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