Donald Hall Quotes
A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.

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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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It's so great to see a woman dressed in jeans and a lace-up boot with an extraordinary jacket. It's a moment where you do want to mix high and low, and it's not so much about a head-to-toe designer look.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.
Charles B. Rangel -
I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. By the twenty-first century, London's best restaurants are as good as Paris's, but not in the 1950s.