Barry Hannah Quotes
A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Envision what the end result is supposed to be... what do you want to be when you grow up? Where do you see yourself? Once we identify what the painting on the wall is, it is so much easier to bring in the right colors, canvas and brushes to paint that picture.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
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The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves under the very fangs of the monster.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
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But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.
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A writer's job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
