Hannah Kent Quotes
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I never read about photography.
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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
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Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
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I never reflect or convey that which I have not experienced myself.
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I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
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Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.
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When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.
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As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket.
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I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
