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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Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.
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I'm not sure I've ever been around anybody that wanted to win more or worked harder than Michael Jordan.
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I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.
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Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.
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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.
