Donald Hall Quotes
Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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You're either ghetto or you're not.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
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It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.
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We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.
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I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.
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Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.
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We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
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It'll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Manchester United fan buys is going into our kitty.
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My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
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I was famous from birth.
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Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
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Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
