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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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.
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The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
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There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.
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I see (humor) in the smallest things.
