Lisa Hanawalt Quotes
I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.
Quotes to Explore
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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We have a community where almost 50 percent of the people in the city of Cleveland alone have some type of record. I represent one of the poorest districts in America - out of 435, I'm 422.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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Change takes courage.
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I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.
