Donald Hall Quotes
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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You can really learn a lot that way,It will change you in the middle of the day,Though your confidence may be shattered,It doesn't matter.
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I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.
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I think that the more of us who take the time to understand how someone else is feeling, the more likely we are to resist alongside them.
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I definitely feel most at home in New York City, although I get stir-crazy if I'm here too long.
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What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
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In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
