Barry Hannah Quotes

I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

Barry Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1942 - March 1, 2010

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His name, Buzz, fits. He can buzz along at 40 miles an hour when his genetic memory moves him.

Joe Henderson

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The only way that residual racist feelings could affect legislation, in my opinion, is through a lack of priorities, from not doing things.

John McWhorter

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It's directors' choice if they want to work with me. Not mine.

Sridevi

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You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

Sue Wicks

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I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Steven Bauer

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All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.

Simon Hoggart

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Michelangelo

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It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

Lord Mountbatten

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Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I never had problems with injuries as a kid or in the youth team. My injuries started at Chelsea, when I broke my foot during a pre-season game. That was just pure bad luck, but after that, I had some muscular injuries, too, so I had to get to know my body better.

Arjen Robben

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There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

Arundhati Roy

NothingMoreFictionBeenMadeThan

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.

Allen Weinstein

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