Donald Hall Quotes
Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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We didn't discover online and think, 'Oh, this is really lucrative. We've got to get on board with it.' We've been here since 2003.
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Sarah Paulson is mind-blowing. I mean, she always is. She's always fantastic.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the last sentence is a pretty plodding way to spend your life.
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It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
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Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.
