William C. Hannon Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I'm just observing. I don't ever want people to think I'm preaching at them or wearing them out.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.
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The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.
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For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.
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My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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What I want most, is to know what You hear in the silence between us.
