Hal Blaine Quotes
To me, this is like an actor receiving the Academy Award; you can’t get any higher than this.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Ever see this? It's a homeless guy but he's got a dog... The dog's really thrilled with this idea. The dog's going, Hey pal, I can do this by myself pretty well. The longest walk in the world you got me on here.
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I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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She brought forth a piece of wood into which she had burned a French saying which our friend Franz had used to cheer us, in Osterburg: La vie est belle, et elle commence demain. “Life is beautiful, and it begins tomorrow."
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To me, this is like an actor receiving the Academy Award; you can’t get any higher than this.
