"I preferred to read than talk with the others."

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Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.132, Pan Macmillan

Hannah Kent

“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”
“There should always be in sight the draw â€” a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.”
“The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make mistakes, but sometimes it's hard to forget about it and let it go. After I made a double on 1, I was able to be patient and let it go and came back with birdies on 3 and 5. When I bogeyed 6, I was able to let it go and come back with a birdie on 8. I was able to let go of some bad shots and forget about it and move on.”
“I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.”
“I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.
“I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.”
“Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.”
“I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.”

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