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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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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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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The big unknown is, at what point is a cyberattack so significant that it warrants a physical-world response.
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
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I love sports, OK? But I think we really need to take it on ourselves to not be so crazy about sports, not to risk someone's future just because we think they might be the next star.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
