Dante Hall Quotes

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

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• I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Free

• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Two
  • Editors
  • Review

• At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Trying
  • Experience
  • Challenge

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Back
  • Aggressive

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

• I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Long
  • Career
  • Golf

• Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Healing

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Promises
  • Commit
  • Loyal

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Children
  • Book

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Soul
  • Made
  • Declaration

• I was always a history buff.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • History

• Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Hand
  • King

• In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good. Our gain was also a loss... There was great value in something well observed and carefully delineated. If the head and heart were often absent, there was something to be said for the presence of a hand.

  

  R. O. Blechman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Country
  • Proud

• If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

  

  Dante Hall
  • City
  • Hand