Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

Barbara Kingsolver

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'What's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.' We felt like that wasn't really what was going on.

Jessie Mueller

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There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.

Jennifer Pahlka

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I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

Jeffrey Wright

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America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

Michael Ignatieff

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It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

Rogers Hornsby

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A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.

Rush Limbaugh

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I took my job for Nickelodeon very seriously, and back then, it wasn't certainly as big of a network as it is now, culturally, and people my age didn't know much about it. But I loved my time there. I really put everything I had into doing 'Guts,' and it actually taught me a lot about how to work really hard.

Mike O'Malley

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I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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Every year, I strive to be the best defensive player in the league.

Draymond Green

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The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Christopher Morley

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I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.

Christie Brinkley

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I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

Pranav Mistry

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