Donald Hall Quotes
When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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Embrace your weirdness!
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People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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When I retired in 2002 I had retired to stay home with my family and didn't necessarily think my playing days were over.
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When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.