Hannah Kent Quotes
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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My hands were constantly blistered or bloody; my ears were always ringing. I tore through drumheads and drumsticks like there was no tomorrow.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
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It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
