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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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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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'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
