Darrell Hammond Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
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I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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I have to give the SNL crew props - it cannot have been easy to work with me.
