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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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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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'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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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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I just love kids. I always have.
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While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
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India always inspires me.
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I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I couldn't see well enough to play baseball when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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With a band I feel stronger. It's not just me and my weird thoughts.
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The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.
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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.
