Barry Hannah Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.
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Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
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An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.
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I want to feel like I'm doing something creative and trying different things, putting different hats on and playing. I don't know what's the point otherwise; otherwise, it's just a job. You punch a time clock.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
