Katori Hall Quotes
Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.
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I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my mother was the kind of woman who just wanted us, me and my sisters, to be exposed to any and anything she could find.
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In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.
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When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.
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Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
