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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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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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
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You can graph human evolution, which is mostly a straight line, but we do get better and change over time, and you can graph technological evolution, which is a line that's going straight up. They are going to intersect each other at some point, and that's happening now.
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From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.
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Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.
