Donald Hall Quotes
In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
Quotes to Explore
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I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience.
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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
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When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
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My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
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I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.
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Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
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Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.
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We don't do things we aren't good at by nature. I wouldn't play basketball because I'm only 5' 1". Find what you enjoy - whether it's racing, flying a helicopter, being a doctor, or stitching clothes together. Once you've done that, you have the passion you need.
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I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world.
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It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.
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The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.
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Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
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In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.
