Hal Hartley Quotes
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I have a very small public.
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Going to school on a campus where the faculty overwhelmingly disagrees with you, and where the student body overwhelmingly disagrees with you, is challenging. If you go in without a firm foundation, it can undermine what you believe.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
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My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.
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I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
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I don't believe you should make fun of anyone but yourself.
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What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
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ESPN is a very anchor-driven network, which I love.
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I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.
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I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
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The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
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I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
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My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
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You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.
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I see (humor) in the smallest things.
