Hannah Kent Quotes
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I'm very open-minded.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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Any time you can get a muscle car back, it's a good thing.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.
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On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
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I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
