Heidi Hammel Quotes
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
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When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.
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We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
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The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.
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I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.
