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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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 a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.
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I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.
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After President Obama's election in 2008, there was a widespread hope that it would mark an end to unseemly partisan nastiness.
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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
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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.
