Hal Elrod Quotes
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I want to have a long career.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
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I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the concept of old money.
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The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and that's how we come to become speakers. Writers you admire, you admire the way they plot, you admire the way they create a character, you admire the way they put a sentence together, those are the writers you should be reading.
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I love deliberately badly written books.
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Give more than you get. Everyday. Everywhere. With everyone. Always.
