Hannah John-Kamen Quotes
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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Cleaning, like seduction, should be done from the top down - starting with the ceiling, which is ridiculous. Gravity takes care of that.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
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In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.
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If you're interested in a 'Teen Vogue' internship, take note: it's not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.
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Since I'm homeschooled, I don't get much kid interaction, so I started at this gym and I got to meet other kids. I actually met one of my best friends there; we hang out all the time.
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Americans overwhelmingly believe that Americans who want to do jobs, who are looking for work, should have a fair opportunity, if not a preference, to do that work.
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Don't use a pick-up line.
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I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy, and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.
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Any email that contains the words 'important' or 'urgent' never are, and annoy me to the point of not replying out of principle.
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How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.
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I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.
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It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
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I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.
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Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
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I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary.
