Barbara Mertz
Related LOU REED DEYTH BANGER I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to imp... DANIEL NESTOR WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN ZARA LARSSON EVE ARNOLD Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's... HIROYUKI SANADA WES CRAVEN BJORK MARTINA MCBRIDE MICHAEL J. FOX Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm... MICHAEL STUHLBARG GRACE PALEY I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My ... OLESYA RULIN It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when ... BETH RIESGRAF I'm not saying you have to be totally despondent or anything, but... in New York, it's cold ... TOM ODELL SELENA GOMEZ SARA SHEPARD GOTYE JOHN TRAVOLTA ASTRO It's funny the way life works. Sometimes you go around in a weird path to find out exactly what ... HAYLIE DUFF Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very ... CHARLIE COX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't bel... CARLTON FISK If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it... EMILY BLUNT AERIN LAUDER JILLIAN HERVEY I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch... DANIEL EVERETT DAVID BAILEY You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the ro... BORIS VALLEJO Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymor... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN JOE PERRY JOHN CENA It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not... TERRY FOX There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it&#... JOSIE LOREN CHRISTIE BRINKLEY ED HELMS NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Knowing that I'm not a model and I'm never going to be has relieved me of the pressure of lo... CHARLIE DAY CHRIS EVANS It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I f... EDIE CAMPBELL PRINCE GERRY COONEY ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I t... ALBERTO MORAVIA It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON JOHN HURT TERRY WOGAN EMMA THOMPSON LORDE I grew up listening to John Coltrane and jazz, so they were subtle influences. I sometimes think abo... KIM GORDON The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The def... MARCIA CLARK NAOMI CAMPBELL Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doi... ANDRE AGASSI GEORGE HARRISON DEYTH BANGER I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the ... ZACH BRAFF I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr... LOUIS L'AMOUR Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometime... BRUCE WEBER Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won... IKE BARINHOLTZ MICHAEL STEELE PAUL MOONEY RACHEL MCADAMS I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN TOMMY LEE JONES MARC JACOBS You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the ... UTKARSH AMBUDKAR I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but ... KATE MICUCCI Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fin... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER BETHANY MCLEAN ROBERT RODRIGUEZ I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great thi... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD SELENA GOMEZ DIDO ARMSTRONG I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD KATE MOSS CATIE CURTIS I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, &#... HARI KUNZRU DANIEL RADCLIFFE I'm a normal person. You say something about me, I'm going to say something back, funny or n... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect wo... STEPHEN COLLETTI Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig... SALLY MANN My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's word... BILL VIOLA RAF SIMONS Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the momen... IDRIS ELBA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON ORNETTE COLEMAN Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ... KATE ATKINSON I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the... TAISSA FARMIGA Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the ... PHILIP TREACY Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM JILL SCOTT I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me bein... TOM ELLIS I think the key is that nothing's ever perfect and you've got to be able to go with change. ... BEN SAVAGE TREVANTE RHODES You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not... ALEXANDER MAMUT WENDY COPE
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who ar... BARBARA MERTZ I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts ... BARBARA MERTZ There's always an unknown with a freshman, but she did a good job, especially clearing the ball, and... KATHERINE MERTZ It's always good to see the ball hitting the back of the net. KATHERINE MERTZ It gave the team confidence behind her. KATHERINE MERTZ I snow blow my driveway at 10 p.m. at night if it snows. I think there needs to be some allowance fo... JEFF MERTZ But the price of commercial property on that corner may be beyond our capabilities in the near futur... JEFF MERTZ It has been nice to own a building that has room for growth. To me, being located in the strip mall ... JEFF MERTZ We have a lot of irons in the fire, and until some major projects get taken care of, City Hall will ... 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BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic. BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday. BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so... BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots... BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs... BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor. BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty... BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ... BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity. BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi... BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ... BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite. BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit... BARBARA SMITH BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni... BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat... BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ... BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook. BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t... BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c... BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ... BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de... BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to... BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron. BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'. BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is... BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad. BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ... BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr... BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books. BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus... BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f... BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of... BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ... BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the... BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ... BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ... BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi... BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi... BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ... BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ... BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ... BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t... BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls... BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho... BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o... 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BARBARA LYNN In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per... BARBARA LYNN God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life. BARBARA LYNN I told Mr. Nader today that a vote for Ralph Nader is really a vote for George Bush. BARBARA LEE We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they'... BARBARA LEE What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into somethi... BARBARA LEE I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against... BARBARA LEE The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our de... BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop... BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ... BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t... BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei... BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds... BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi... BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages... BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what... BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere... BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ... BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new... BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated... BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ... BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta... BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin... BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write ab... 
You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ... 
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... 
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... 
I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I ha... 
It's not an easy place to be - to write a horror film. You go down the stairs to the dark to fin... 
Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I... 
Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but ... 
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you... 
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple sto... 
My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconsc... 
I'm not big on sequels; I've done them, but I like doing little things that have their own t... 
I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long ... 
If you feel comfortable in what you're wearing, you'll look your best, and I think that'... 
For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta... 
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea... 
Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while ... 
I have certain things that I stand for, certain things that I believe in, and if you don't like ... 
I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant su... 
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a w... 
Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about charac... 
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pict... 
Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don'... 
It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g... 
I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for my daughter,... 
Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know ... 
I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&... 
Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not ne... 
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. An... 
I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in mysel... 
Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a reco... 
You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are ... 
I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's ... 
I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very po... 
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has ... 
Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to... 
I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be m... 
When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find y... 
It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and a... 
Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like... 
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write... 
I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to man... 
I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it&#... 
Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest ... 
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn&... 
I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works o... 
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... 
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K... 
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g... 
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. 
I have a pig valve. 
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every... 
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. 
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count... 
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post... 
The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou... 
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c... 
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se... 
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as... 
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... 
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. 
Books are humanity in print. 
It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ... 
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ... 
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. 
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... 
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... 
I think it was 37 years that I did music. 