Iris Johansen Quotes
Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
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It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.
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Hatred can eat at you until there's nothing left, until you become the thing you hate.
