Hanne Blank Quotes
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
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Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.
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I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe...
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The spectacular view always made Laing aware of his ambivalent feelings for this concrete landscape. Part of its appeal lay all too clearly in the fact that this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.
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I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
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I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.
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I've read a lot of Terry Pratchett's stuff, probably from when I was, like, 14.
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Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.
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When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
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I hope there is a place for me in the country landscape, but I'm not too precious about it, either.
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Duke is a character who believes that heroism and the Robin mantle can exist entirely separate from Batman himself.
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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.
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We have forgotten that democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives.
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I'm kind of a jeans and T-shirt guy.
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My early life has given me a great deal to draw on, certainly - but would I have swapped a happy childhood for the writing? Yes.
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The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.
