Donald Hall Quotes

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

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• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  

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• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

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• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

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• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

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• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

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• I am a very selfish person.

  

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• Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

  

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• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

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• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

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• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

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• It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

  

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• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

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• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

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• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

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• Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

  

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• Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

  

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• Faith and its attendant rituals sound like a good deal, the whole eternal salvation thing, but inevitably they lead to fear, oppression, the rack and flames.

  

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• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  

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• It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

  

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