Siobhan Fallon Hogan Quotes
I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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I have often felt a bitter sorrow at the thought of the German people, which is so estimable in the individual and so wretched in the generality. A comparison of the German people with other peoples arouses a painful feeling, which I try to overcome in every possible way.
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I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.
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You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
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As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.
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You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.
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I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.
