Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

Barbara Kingsolver

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LifeTimeYouTableDownPerson

I grew up studying martial arts, playing violin, swimming competitively, so I already had athletic focus, discipline and training. When I brought that to climbing, I became passionate.

Jimmy Chin

DisciplineFocusTrainingSwimming

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

John F. Tierney

WomenMenSafetyBraveCountryLine

I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.

Andrew-Lee Potts

FamilyComedyEnoughPlayLucky

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

Michael Franti

MotherSonChildrenMyselfParents

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Michael Crichton

ReachYouWalletConsensusSomething

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

Steven Bochco

GoodWritingBelieveProblemsWho

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Tom Peters

BusinessFastTestAdjustFail

I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.

Robin Lord Taylor

LiveNew YorkCitySmallNewHang

We can be just as safe with a smaller, more efficient nuclear arsenal at less cost.

Mike Quigley

MoreSafeCostJustSmallerLess

I love doing scenes with two actors in an elevator, but sometimes I'm a little boy, and I like swinging a sword with 800 soldiers around.

Michiel Huisman

LoveDoingSwordSometimesBoyTwo

Of course we need to show we are a genuine alternative to an unpopular, Conservative-led government. But we need to set ourselves a higher standard than a party offering anger like UKIP.

Douglas Alexander

AngerGovernmentPartyGenuineNeed

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

David Walliams

WorldBelieveYouSuccessfulBritish

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