Garrett Hedlund Quotes

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

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• I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.

  

  Dan Brown
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• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
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• Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
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• No one needs anything; they have to want it.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
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• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
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• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
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• I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.

  

  Kate Christensen
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• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
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• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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• I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

  

  Flume
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• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
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• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
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  • Ireland

• I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Up

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
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• I'd grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here.

  

  Dinah Manoff
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• Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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  • Angry
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• I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.

  

  Jesse Andrews

• I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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