Mark Hanna Quotes
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
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When we formed the band in 1970, we set out to try to write great songs like the songs we heard when we were growing up.
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The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
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He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.
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Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!
