Donald Hall Quotes
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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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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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I was wondering if any of my faith was real at all, and I started to let go of a lot of things that I had learned and say, 'Maybe I just need to start over entirely with what I have learned about my faith.' And that's what I did.
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She rarely saw priest-and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God-and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?-but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.
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When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.
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Some day the quest for friendship will replace the quest for material well-being that sooner or later will have been adequately provided for.
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I'm not cynical.
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Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
