Steven Hall Quotes
Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
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Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
