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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1955

Topics

Grow You Grow Up See Up Would

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Win Sides Permanent Both Sides Both

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

Face Way Need Over Housing Supply

Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.

Angelique Kerber

Feeling Surface Well Knows Everybody

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

Help Will Rural Urban Us Get

I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.

Home School People End Someone Go

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Life Think Perfect Hide Way Mess

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.

Moment Beginning End Sometimes Going

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Douglas Brinkley

Father Live Children Country Young

I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

Now Want Nashville Fortunate Just

Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.

Life Quality Sympathy Speak Stop

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Creative Control Career Possible

I love a good piece of pizza. I love a good hamburger. If I don't let myself have those things, there's going to be a week where I just go off the deep end and eat nothing but that.

Love Good Myself Pizza Deep End

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