Hannah Kearney Quotes
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
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A novel is not a rant.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I'd never been in charge of an organization.
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It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
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I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.
