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Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, e... BARBARA DELINSKY Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own ... BARBARA DELINSKY Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go,... BARBARA DELINSKY I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works. BARBARA DELINSKY I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create. BARBARA DELINSKY In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the rea... BARBARA DELINSKY You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those ye... BARBARA DELINSKY As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field... BARBARA DELINSKY If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere. 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I had hurt Vicki, yet here ... BARBARA DELINSKY What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your li... BARBARA DELINSKY one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or... BARBARA DELINSKY Did you hear about the lawyer hurt in a crash? An ambulance stopped suddenly. BARBARA DELINSKY Except she wasn’t Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her hu... BARBARA DELINSKY Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn’t that why people watch Animal Planet? Es... BARBARA DELINSKY What was it they said about the difference between a lawyer and a bucket of crap being the bucket? BARBARA DELINSKY I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause, BARBARA DELINSKY But the rest of what I was doing is … is like spinning. I sit in a room of thirty people I don�... BARBARA DELINSKY The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else. 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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 ... 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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 had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry Jam... 
I could have returned his phone calls, but it was off-season. 
Where did he go when he left us? I spied the new journal he had started using just last week and hel... 
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor... 
He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get ... 
I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could nev... 
James Elly Kleinman, a cousin of mine was seriously ill two or three weeks ago, in New York, but is ... 
Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ... 
It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h... 
I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as ... 
I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I ... 
He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choic... 
But they were not living, thought Harry: They were gone. The empty words could not disguise the fact... 
What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or ... 
It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inv... 
I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regr... 
I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they coul... 
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not g... 
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Sca... 
I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go b... 
He explained to Atro that he now understood why the army was organized as it was. It was indeed quit... 
I could never be James Bond. 
Maybe I could just James Bond my way down the cable if I draped the scarf over it, clinging to the e... 
It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say n... 
He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me.
When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was ... 
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, ... 
From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal... 
He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I ... 
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understo... 
When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and ... 
When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than suff... 
I’ll be your family now,” he says.
There was no way I could understand our defeat. I had to grieve over our loss before I could look to... 
The doctor heard my heartbeat and found out I had an irregular heartbeat. I was not symptomatic or a... 
You all right?" he said again.
And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in... 
Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an a... 
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pron... 
I could have played 48 minutes. I have never had problems with my conditioning before. For a coach t... 
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma... 
The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an arte... 
I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. Wha... 
I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later... 
I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man's actions but not hate ... 
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in t... 
I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There w... 
I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light... 
Whether or not, he felt very much at home in this state. It was to places like this that they had se... 
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... 
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. 
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. 
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. 
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ... 
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... 
That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. 
In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ... 