Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes
The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the way down, and playing from the age of 16, at such a high level, has to take its toll.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
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I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.
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The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.
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The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.
