Hannah Kearney Quotes
Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.
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We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.
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I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I have to be where the best work can be done.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
