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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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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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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When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
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There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.
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When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they're afraid. They say, 'Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I'm scared. Please stop this from happening.'
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Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
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You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
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Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
