Barbara Mertz
Related ADAM SANDLER I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of n... FARLEY MOWAT SHIRLEY MANSON I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I ... SUZANNE BROCKMANN Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of ... JOAN CAULFIELD CHARLOTTE BRONTE So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people tha... DAVID DENMAN WILL ROGERS FRANK OCEAN I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. LISA SCOTTOLINE Hopefully I don't annoy people too much. MISSY FRANKLIN EMMA WATSON I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on tim... MAXWELL RON CHERNOW ROBERT STACK RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN ROBERT PATTINSON CEELO GREEN I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their... ABIGAIL BRESLIN HEDY LAMARR JOHN HENCH I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to... JOE ARPAIO OLIVIER THEYSKENS MUHAMMAD ALI I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER RYAN GOSLING Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues. BIRCH BAYH MIKE TYSON There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don... JOY FIELDING KESHA I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't ha... NEIL CAVUTO GISELE BUNDCHEN There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I&#... JAMES D'ARCY I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that. LACEY CHABERT I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me. ADAM GARCIA TUCKER MAX KATHLEEN HANNA I see too many celebrity kids who can't sing. If you don't have it, give it up, because peop... CHARLES KELLEY Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse. CESAR ROMERO I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, ei... ANDY BIERSACK DAN AYKROYD NOEL GALLAGHER Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the ... ROGER PENROSE I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's j... SCOTT THOMPSON OMAR SHARIF MARGARET ATWOOD Even people who work with me don´t know who I´m dating. I just don´t talk about it so that I won�... PEDRO ALMODOVAR BEBE REXHA CONOR MCGREGOR LEO BUSCAGLIA Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER ELMORE LEONARD I don't like cattiness, or people who are too judgmental of others, or other situations. TYLER BLACKBURN FAYE WATTLETON CARINE ROITFELD ALBER ELBAZ The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn&... PETER O'TOOLE I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL IKE TURNER IRIS APFEL I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in tha... UTADA HIKARU GEORGE CARLIN There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there a... RICHARD SHERMAN I've been to nudist beaches, like twice. But honestly, I just don't want to see these people... PETER BUCK AARON SORKIN I don't like people who don't have opinions. DAVID KOECHNER BOBBY FISCHER ZARA LARSSON BO BURNHAM KATY PERRY I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a... TREVOR RABIN LIL WAYNE I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime. IRA GLASS Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try. ROSABETH MOSS KANTER CHANG-RAE LEE ELLEN BASS I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, h... CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, h... CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. SIGOURNEY WEAVER SHANIA TWAIN IRIS APFEL I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see... ROB MARIANO ANDREW LANSLEY HELENA BONHAM CARTER ISSA RAE TAYLOR SWIFT For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessari... SELA WARD I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've m... PHIL ROBERTSON EMRAAN HASHMI LUKE EVANS Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't hav... CHARLES NELSON REILLY THICH NHAT HANH BILL DIXON ANNIE PARISSE BEN STEIN ADAM SCOTT There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of sty... COLIN MOCHRIE We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC
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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 not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... 
I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with peopl... 
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Do... 
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress peo... 
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. 
I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid ... 
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin... 
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Tay... 
'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattere... 
People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity wou... 
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man s... 
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don'... 
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on t... 
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don&#... 
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&... 
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, ... 
I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. 
I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live... 
I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am. 
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essentia... 
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on... 
I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don... 
I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think peo... 
I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people... 
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don'... 
I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that ... 
There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about. 
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. 
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... 
Being a person who has had plastic surgery and goes to the gym five days a week to work my muscles u... 
I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am unde... 
If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable. 
Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't k... 
I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People... 
People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they... 
The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. ... 
There are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't... 
I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... 
I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm... 
People don't understand that I have a great relationship with my parents - like, how that can ex... 
I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. 
Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to. 
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poet... 
I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's percepti... 
I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness b... 
I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. I... 
So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue. 
The culture is about moving to a place where tobacco and smoking isn't part of normal life: peop... 
Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's ... 
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re... 
I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on... 
I am tired of kissing on screen. I have to do it because it is synonymous with me. Also, the produce... 
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don'... 
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and ... 
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematical... 
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... 
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think t... 
I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people. 
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. 
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 find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav... 
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. 
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... 
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. 
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. 
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 ... 
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ... 
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... 
It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca... 
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra... 