Hannah John-Kamen Quotes
I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but I think people are relating to strong female leads.
Quotes to Explore
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?
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The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.
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I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
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I was trained professionally to connect with people as a therapist. That's job number one, having a empathetic regard towards someone who is sitting right across from you. Being able to pull whatever their needs are, their desires and the things that are troubling them and being able to address that in some way.
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I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
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When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.
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I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but I think people are relating to strong female leads.
