Donald Hall Quotes
My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.

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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I believe in community policing.
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A huge part of Irish dance is balance, which is so good for any kind of combat - just being aware of your body.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
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My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.