Barbara Park Quotes

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

Barbara Park

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1947 - November 15, 2013

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We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.

Jesse Jackson

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The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

John Blair

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My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

Andy Garcia

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Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

John Maeda

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I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.

Merce Cunningham

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I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

John Poindexter

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Even though we're really, really happy with what we do, sometimes I think - as an adult, you think, 'Should I be more responsible with my life choices?'

St. Lucia

LifeHappyChoicesThinkMy Life

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

Sonny Perdue

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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

Sitting Bull

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I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award?

Michael Palin

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Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.

Divyanka Tripathi

LifeFamilyGoodHappinessFreedom

If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes.

Jon Ronson

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