Hal Elrod Quotes
Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.
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Talent is very hot.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I'd like to do more acting.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
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Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.
