Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.

Barbara Kingsolver

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MorningWordsSunStartTryingNeed

I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

John Darnielle

ThinkDoingSayRealHereWell

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

Meg Ryan

BusinessYearsBeenStillTownWays

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke

LifeKnowledgeHistoryUnderstanding

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

Meghan O'Rourke

MotherTimeDayDeathThoughtLook

I am much more a pitch manager than a general manager. I am one of the few managers who is bored by the transfer market. Our task is growing the players that we have.

Maurizio Sarri

I AmGrowingManagerMoreTask

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Steven Pinker

BelieveThinkKindHumanConfusion

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Romain Gary

PeopleGoKnowWantFirstGet

I have a speed, and I have to use it when I play against someone who gives you the space.

Mohamed Salah

SpaceSomeoneSpeedYouPlayWho

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

BuildingNewQuestionFirstTrade

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

Judith Viorst

PeopleInfluenceThinkLovedGarden

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

Denis Villeneuve

TruthYouFindParadoxContradiction

It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.

Cory Booker

GovernmentLogicDebtAgainstApply

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