William Hone Quotes
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.
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Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
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I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.
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Never assume you understand. Ask the questions.
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
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A good lather is half the shave.
