Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes
The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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What kinda women you is? You gonna let a man lay up on another woman in your own house and not do nothing about it?
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.
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The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.
