Hannah Kent Quotes
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
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School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.
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Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
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In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
