Hal Hartley Quotes
There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.
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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
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There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
