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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Make no mistake about it. I don't want a man in here to go back home thinking otherwise; we are going to win.
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We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?
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Its a great day for hockey.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Everybody's a specialist.
