Donald Hall Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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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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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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As an older generation, we need to give all our young people love and the possibility of realizing their dreams. For instance, if I get really political, the fact that some people can't go to college, can't even think about college, that's not American; that's not right.
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For better or worse, poetry is my life.
