Barry Hannah Quotes
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Your word determines your day, who you are, where you are and where you are bound. You are headed somewhere and God in you wants to stand up. Here's another thought: The key to manifestation is focussing your attention powerfully and persistently on what you desire. All of this is out of my new book: The Laws of Thinking.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth
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I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
