Jason Hammel Quotes
I have always been a hard worker. I had to make some adjustments to find a way to make my delivery crisper and more repeatable.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.
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The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
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When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.
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Libraries can take the place of God.
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
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The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.
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In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.
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The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence. We have but little to do to preserve peace, happiness and prosperity at home, and the respect of other nations. Our experience ought to teach us the necessity of the first; our power secures the latter.
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A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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(The Community Charge is) the flagship of the Thatcher fleet.
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I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.
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Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
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The more you know about somebody's back story, the deeper you can delve into that well, and the more your comedic choices resonate full-body instead of just being quick, quippy one-liners that are just like a bunch of people trying to be clever. Because after a while, cleverness is just really obnoxious!
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I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.
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I think it's a great thing to hear the author reading. I've listened to CDs of Cheever and Updike reading their stories and Hemingway. To hear what their voices were like is amazing. Whether they're reading well or not, it's great to listen to the intonation and the beat of the guy who wrote the story.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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I try to keep my eyes and ears open all the time for the bones of my next song: things people say, melodies I hear in my head, and little musical parts I may stumble across. I write them down or record them on my phone. Whatever I need to do to keep the idea for later when I have the time to sit down with it. So writing for me is a 24/7 pursuit.
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man's technologies.
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I have always been a hard worker. I had to make some adjustments to find a way to make my delivery crisper and more repeatable.
