Hamlin Garland Quotes
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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We shred every day.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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We've all kinds of kinds of hells and damns in country. But we don't have that other. We haven't progressed that far yet or degenerated. Who knows? . . . There are a few that are trying it. It's true. Some of these guys say it 500 times. I said (to Kid Rock), "how many times do you say it on an album -- 500 times? He just has that little grin.
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It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
