Kathleen Hanna Quotes
As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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Every market has some rules and boundaries that restrict freedom of choice. A market looks free only because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we fail to see them.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.
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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.
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So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
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It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
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As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.
