Hanna Rosin Quotes
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I like happy endings.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'
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I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there is a certain limit on what you can spend.
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My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
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This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
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I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.
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I like boys with humor.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.
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Pop culture is like our subconscious.
