Barry Hannah Quotes
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.
