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Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Barbara Kingsolver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job Blue Me Moon Rest Hotel

Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.

Jesse Johnson

Music School Loved Doing Acting

He was an amazing father. I clutched my memories of him to my heart for so long, but he's a part of the world.

Jennifer Grant

Father Heart Memories Amazing World

I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Walk Body Comfortable Naked Cook

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil.

Ron Wyden

American Will Oil More Pay Charge

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

Michel Hazanavicius

Dream Try Director Studio Movie

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Debbie Macomber

Children Walls Name Famous Wall

I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things.

Corey Sevier

Done Admire Things Just He Roles

People are always ready to pull you down.

Arjun Kapoor

People You Down Ready Always Pull

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

Wole Soyinka

Space Dictatorship Nation Outer Space

If you say that your national law allows you to do something, it is fine as long as you do this inside your own territory. As long as you go international, you really have to be sure that there is an international law which you respect and which you follow.

Sergei Lavrov

Respect Law Long You Go Say

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

Nick Sagan

Culture American Because Sci-Fi Our

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

Change Power Alone People Powerful