Barry Hannah Quotes

I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.

Barry Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

Jesse Metcalfe

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The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a longer poem, is finished enough to write down. I can hold several lines in my head for quite some time, but as soon as they are written down, the register clears, as it were, and I have to work with what is on the paper.

John Burnside

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The only thing you need to set up a business school is a warm body and a piece of chalk.

John Quelch

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A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

Rush Limbaugh

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I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

Miranda Lambert

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Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

Lisanne Falk

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I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

Jose Andres

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Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

Jon Secada

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My dad was the biggest influence on my life because he was never boring.

Christian Bale

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I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

Conor Maynard

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I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

Brian Eno

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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

Armstrong Williams

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