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 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.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
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• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
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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!

  

  Larry David
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• I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.

  

  Nas
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• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
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• I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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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.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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• The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
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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.

  

  Kate Williams
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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.

  

  Randy Johnson
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• I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

  

  Adam McKay
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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.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
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• I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • World
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• I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

  

  Katharine Whitehorn
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• In between jobs, you think your luck has run out, but they keep on letting me do what I love to do. I really can't complain.

  

  Jon Tenney
  • Luck

• 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.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing