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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I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
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No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.
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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.
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I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them.
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Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.
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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.
