Barbara Boxer
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JACK BRUCE ELMORE LEONARD PATRICK NESS DAVID BENIOFF VICTORIA BECKHAM When I first started modelling, as I was walking down the catwalk I just thought, 'Please don... AGYNESS DEYN BUDDY DEFRANCO I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every... MIKE POSNER JAMES HANSEN My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Ye... NATHAN FILLION LIAM GALLAGHER STEVEN WRIGHT SUMMER SANDERS GRAHAM MOORE GRAHAM SWIFT SEBASTIAN THRUN I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin... RANSOM RIGGS MATTHEW QUICK MARIE OSMOND LOIS LOWRY I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or ... JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please ... JACK LAYTON Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've fill... BLAKE MYCOSKIE I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS ROBERT B. PARKER I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in whic... EVAN DANDO COREY TAYLOR You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child... REGINA KING RICHARD MATHESON If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know... RAEKWON STEPHEN COLBERT BEN SCHNETZER MICHAEL KEATON I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, ... TODD ROKITA I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. DANE COOK THURGOOD MARSHALL JODI PICOULT JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE KEVIN HART I don't write as much erotic romance as I used to, but I think that's just because my writin... SHILOH WALKER I think to this day, 'Superman/Wonder Woman' is probably one of the trickiest things I'v... CHARLES SOULE I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afte... ISABELLE ADJANI Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums beca... HANS ZIMMER MAXINE KUMIN ZAINAB SALBI JENNI RIVERA What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a trage... SALLY PHILLIPS WENDY COPE My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN ATHOL FUGARD FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. EUGENIE CLARK Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if... GARY VALENTINE MARIA SHARAPOVA From a good lie in the middle of a fairway bunker, I'll make the same swing as I do from an aver... ERNIE ELS Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy, I don't know how I will sing toda... SONU NIGAM DANIEL RADCLIFFE Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous... MAX LANDIS If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn... PETER HAMMILL JENNIFER TILLY TONY DUNGY TOM PETTY LADY GAGA ROBERT SMITH ACTION BRONSON If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's... VIVIENNE MING My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to... PATRICK MURPHY I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and da... CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in co... TANANARIVE DUE There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ... KAREN ELSON DEREK WALCOTT ANN HOOD DAVID ATTENBOROUGH RAIN I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I go... CLINT HOWARD Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not. WATT KEY I don't make records that way, where I'm trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not b... FRANK BLACK
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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. 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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... 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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... 
My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going o... 
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right fra... 
If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... 
I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna plea... 
A lot of people who don't write for kids think it's easy, because they think kids aren't... 
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writi... 
Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissi... 
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer fro... 
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look dow... 
I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice,... 
I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a far... 
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public sch... 
Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the me... 
I live on a ranch in Texas and do my own thing. And I don't care what anyone has to say about it... 
I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved b... 
I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found... 
I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I... 
I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that... 
I don't type my sentences on an arena's pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing... 
I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don&#... 
Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can'... 
If your child gets asthma, the fossil fuel industry doesn't pay. Or if there's a natural dis... 
I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They&... 
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and force... 
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's ... 
Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this ama... 
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It... 
When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big... 
When I sit down to write, I don't think, 'OK, what is the next David O. Russell film I can w... 
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that... 
I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a... 
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone... 
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'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female box... 
The only thing that I don't like is my kids watching comedy that isn't actually funny. There... 
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I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my ... 
'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black... 
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the mu... 
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Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in ... 
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis... 
I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down a... 
My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems... 
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ... 
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... 
What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... 
As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, a... 
I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description. 
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... 
I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My... 
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her... 
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down a... 
I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring pe... 
My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would... 
Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own p... 
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I f... 
I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tu... 
Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count... 
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must ... 
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. 
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... 
I have a pig valve. 
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. 
In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post... 
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki... 
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... 
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. 
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It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ... 
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. 
You don't have to get it right the first time. 
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 am loving being Momma. I really, really am. 