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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Democracy is the road to socialism.
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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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If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.
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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 have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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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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Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
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I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.
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Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
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While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour's values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.
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I see (humor) in the smallest things.
