Earl Hamner, Jr. Quotes
If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
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If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get them on Amazon - they've got echinacea and vitamins A and E. They're really good for your immune system, too. You don't get sick, and they really help your skin, hair, and nails.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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I want to love life.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
