Hal Elrod Quotes
Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
-
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
-
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
-
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
-
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
-
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
-
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
-
Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
-
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
-
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
-
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
-
Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
-
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
-
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
-
I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
I always loved samurai movies, and I wanted to incorporate that whole level of elegance and just the code of the samurai to 'Conan.'
-
It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?
-
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
-
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
-
We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.
-
Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.
