Jane Hamilton Quotes
A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Accept loss forever.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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I've been in Chicago for every Christmas of my life.
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During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity.
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When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
