Hal Hartley Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I don't think it's good for anyone to be in the public light - for negative reasons.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.
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My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.
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I'll be honest, I like everything about my body.
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
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When I was younger, I did lots of plays, put on shows for Mum and Dad, made my brother dress up in ridiculous tutus and whatnot to perform in front of them. I think my pre-primary report was like, 'Has a flair for drama' - it was just a little side note.
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The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.
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Everybody's a specialist.
