Hannah Kent Quotes

I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

Hannah Kent

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Me
  • Passionate

• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Time
  • Weird
  • Stupid

• In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Know
  • Imagination

• Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • People
  • Art
  • Write

• There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Way
  • Peace

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • She
  • Start
  • Year

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

  

  Karin Fossum
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Great
  • College
  • Brother

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

  

  Lynn Coady

• The essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Photography

• The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • People
  • World
  • City

• For an athlete myself, it is especially meaningful for our country to host an Olympics. Every athlete hopes to participate in an Olympics, so I still can't believe the games of dreams is going to take place in Korea.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Athlete

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light