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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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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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
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If a person a) is poorly, b) receives treatment intended to make him better, and c) gets better, no power of reasoning known to medical science can convince him that it may not have been the treatment that restored his health.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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I wasn't a great athlete.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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What I want most, is to know what You hear in the silence between us.