Harry Hadden-Paton Quotes

I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'

Harry Hadden-Paton

• Life
• London
• Thumbs
• Twiddling
• My Fair Lady
• Bartlett Sher

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• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

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• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

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• It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

  

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• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

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• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

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• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

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• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

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• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

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• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

  

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• We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.

  

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• I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

  

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• I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

  

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• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

  

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• I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

  

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• I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

  

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• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  

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• I was just twiddling my thumbs in London, literally not knowing what I was going to do with my life, and my agent says, 'You got an audition for 'My Fair Lady' with Bartlett Sher.'

  

  Harry Hadden-Paton
  • Life
  • London
  • Thumbs