Donald Hall Quotes
When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.
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Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.
