Jane Hamilton Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.
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I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.
