Hal Blaine Quotes
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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Cheryl's artistically inclined. She draws and sketches, but I don't know about acting.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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I did a minor in creative writing in college, but I didn't start writing until I stayed at home with my own children.
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If biking is your passion, set aside time to enjoy a good ride.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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Actors usually tend to gravitate towards the evil things that stretch them.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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This is what I tell my students: step outside of your tiny little world. Step inside of the tiny little world of somebody else. And then do it again and do it again and do it again. And suddenly, all these tiny little worlds, they come together in this complex web. And they build a big, complex world.
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There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people - whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
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I’m very excited and honored to be elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
