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.
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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.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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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.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.
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I always try to make each character my own.
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Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.
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I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
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If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.
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Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
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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.
