Barry Hannah Quotes
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
