Donald Hall Quotes
In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
Donald Hall
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez
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Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
Osman Rashid
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
Larry Wall
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
Yvonne Strahovski
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
Malcolm X
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
Vanessa Williams
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Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.
Hannah Tointon
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Wayne Dyer
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It's all because of my parents that I am gifted with such good looks and people get attracted to me. I have built an image in the industry, and because of that, I have so many female fans. I want to build my male fan following, too.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I. M. Pei
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton
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Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
James O'Shaughnessy
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So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we must seize the moment,” the same moment he’s been seizing every day of the week for the past year, only this time his genius photo-op guys thought it would look good to have him surrounded by men in white coats.
Mark Steyn
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
Antonio Porchia
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.
Donald Hall
