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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I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.
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Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.
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When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
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When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
