"Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there."

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Source : Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#Faces Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Muscles Quotes

“We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.”
“The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace.”
“It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.”
“Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political control limits the options. The best recipe is adaptive efficiency coping with novel uncertainty in a non-ergodic world, the maintenance of institutions which enable trial & error experiment to occur, and an effective means of eliminating unsuccessful solutions”
“We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.”
“The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.”
“I worked with a mime coach. I did weapons training. I did weight training.”
“People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.”

Source : "Featured Filmmaker: Christopher Guest" by Ken P., www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.

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