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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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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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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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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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 feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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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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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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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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The distance between me and Benny [Goodman], was that I was trying to play a musical thing, and Benny was trying to swing. Benny had great fingers; I'd never deny that. But listen to our two versions of 'Star Dust.' I was playing; he was swinging.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.
