Hal Sutton Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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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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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
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The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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You've got to take risks if you want to find love.
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
