Barbara Quotes

Raising George Walker was not easy.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?

I'm tired now of the elections.

I'm a little old-fashioned.

If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

Your business is a part of yourself. Should it be? Who knows, but it sure feels that way. You can never really leave it.

Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.

Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

As I've matured, the roles are a bit more layered and representative of where I am today as an older person with more responsibilities, perspective and hopefully not too many regrets.

The people I love the most in the film industry are the writers. And I think they're the people who are most vulnerable and are really open to new ideas. They're the originators, the creators.

When I work with filmmakers today, I'm really an advocate for the women's roles that I see, to make them as layered and as deep as possible. I think many of them are underwritten.

When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.

I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.

Superhero roles seem to be popular. I'd like to see more female superheroes. How about a grandmother superhero? I'd pay good money to see that.

When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

Love is the magician of the universe. It creates everything out of nothing.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.