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Hannah Kent Quotes

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

Hannah Kent

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1985

Topics

Night Mystery Know March Center Us

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

Jim Loehr

Time Focus Quality Energy You Force

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Jodie Foster

People Better Movies Always Idea

I thought I was funny as a kid.

Jo Brand

Funny Thought Kid

I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of what I did and how I did it.

Troy Brown

Job Proud Things Big Did How

Metal fans are just as compassionate and caring and tolerant as any other form of music fans are.

Rob Halford

Music Caring Fans Metal Just Form

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'

Lorrie Moore

Writing Say Obsession Anything Going

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it.

Jay Hernandez

Great Best Experience Loved Year

I actually sat down and started three Alexanders at the same time. Two of them went in the trash and got stomped on because I hated the idea so much. And the one I came up with, I got very excited by. And that's 'Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever'.

Judith Viorst

Time Best Trying Down Three Trash

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

Dick Thornburgh

Tax Puerto Rico Income Tax Pay Rico

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.

Johnny Weir

Path Walk Child Me Feel Down

In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Home Children Parents Talking More

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

Family Health Teacher Vision Medical