I'm not very into pastas or heavy foods like meat, but pastries, especially if they come from a really nice French bakery, I go crazy over! I try to allow myself those little treats in the morning for breakfast, then I have a lighter lunch.
Barbara Fialho
Related If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I... RORY MCILROY On a really good day, if I'm really trying, in the morning I'll have a piece of toast, vitam... JO MARIE PAYTON Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like ... EMMA ROBERTS Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to h... MAGDA APANOWICZ Half the time on vacation, if I'm in a bikini, I allow myself - I eat, like, waffles and pancake... ASHLEY TISDALE If I'm alone, I tend to cook for myself. I do a pretty good job of preparing healthful foods. My... ELLIE KEMPER I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burne... JA RULE I am a dichotomy of tastes. I'm big on water, and I do a protein drink in the morning, but then ... BRAD D. SMITH Since I won't get to go into their homes, I really need to see from this journaling what the meal si... PATTI MILLIGAN But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've alwa... VANESSA CARLTON I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those pe... KATHLEEN HANNA I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready... CHANNING TATUM Outside of 'Justified,' I do like to keep it to comedy. When I'm not there, I try to see... NATALIE ZEA I find that when you do yoga, you don't crave unhealthy food. But I try to always let myself eat... RENA SOFER I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner. YUNJIN KIM I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their l... MISSY ELLIOTT But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person. FLUME There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves ... CHELSEA HANDLER When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good da... BOB FELLER I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings. VERA WANG I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to emb... BECKI NEWTON I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird ... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But ... GWEN STEFANI There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I... ZAINAB SALBI So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I woul... NICOLE POLIZZI I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ... EVE BUNTING I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M.... TAYLOR HICKS I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especial... CONSTANCE JABLONSKI I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat som... LAUREN BOWLES I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... PAUL SIMON I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I ... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs... AMANDA SEYFRIED Here's how it goes: I'm up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the paper... E. L. DOCTOROW I'm not a cooking person, so there's not much in the fridge. On the rare occasion that I do ... EUGENIE BOUCHARD I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people... BEBE REXHA I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself. NIALL HORAN Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white fl... JENNA USHKOWITZ It's very nice to have two silver medals. Yesterday morning after breakfast I had to return my bronz... MARTINA GLAGOW It's easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of c... JOJO When I wake up, I'm like, 'I gotta go to Whole Foods.' I'm constantly reading cookbo... CHRISSY TEIGEN I only come for breakfast and lunch. BOB MCKENNA I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over fo... JENNIFER ANISTON I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain so... DEMETRI MARTIN I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I... MITCH ALBOM I just love carbs. And when I'm on vacation I definitely allow myself carbs, so it's always ... ASHLEY TISDALE I'm not trying to find another thing that's wrong with me, but I'm such a nice person, a... TRACEY EMIN I'm looking for laughs, you know? If it take me to flip over a table, if I have to go physical c... BERNIE MAC I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991. EARL CAMPBELL What the hell would I do if I retired? I come in every morning, and after lunch we go to the bank an... JACK WEIL My fantasy breakfast is just a really good egg scramble. Maybe I'll add a little feta, so, uh, o... ALEX HONNOLD If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day an... JORDIN SPARKS I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that... JUSTINA MACHADO Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think s... DAVID H. MURDOCK I left Israel to work as a model, to just make money - I didn't care if I was doing an ad for to... MORAN ATIAS I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and... KAREN O I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from ano... SHERRILYN KENYON I have all these rules for avoiding depression. One is going outside in the morning. I don't kee... RACHEL MINER If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but... SALMA HAYEK I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself. EL DEBARGE There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn'... J. COLE Of course I like to be tan, but now I try to avoid it. I don't mind having a little glow, but no... JULIA RESTOIN ROITFELD Some of the Christopher Guest movies, when I'm not really like myself, when I have my hair dyed ... FRED WILLARD I try not to tweet too much; I'm a really sporadic tweeter. I will tweet nonstop for, like, 3 da... ELIZABETH GILLIES I'm really big on day dates. If you go for a stroll, have a picnic or lunch with a glass of wine... MEGHAN MARKLE I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty... CARLOS FUENTES I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble. MIGUEL I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica,... BEN SAVAGE I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I cat... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sometimes, people who are very fastidious about what they're going to do in their work are not v... WHIT STILLMAN Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm n... BRETT RATNER When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm... CHAD HARBACH As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a... SHARON JONES It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food eve... JOANNA LUMLEY As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thi... ZAHA HADID I'm an afternoon tea type of girl. I come from a Russian background where we love our teas. So b... MARIA SHARAPOVA I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I w... WASHED OUT Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE
More Barbara Fialho
I don't usually have facials. BARBARA FIALHO I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes... BARBARA FIALHO I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged a... BARBARA FIALHO I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always wor... BARBARA FIALHO The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K... BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve. BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every... BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count... BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post... BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou... BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found... BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c... BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se... BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav... BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as... BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa... BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me. BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children... BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha... BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ... BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,... BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj... BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family. BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h... BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general. BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory... BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to... BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print. BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations. BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi... BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes. BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent. BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott... 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 It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ... BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music. BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time. BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ... BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer. BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ... BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable. BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr... BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. 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... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an... BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow. BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca... BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music. BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am. BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu... BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h... BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h... BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w... BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years. BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa... BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe... BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire.... BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ... BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ... BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ... BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let... BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene... BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi... BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ... BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors... BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people. BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca... BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues. BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean? BARBARA LYNN You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin... BARBARA LYNN I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I... 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 The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise. BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. BARBARA KINGSOLVER What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th... BARBARA KINGSOLVER