Hal Duncan Quotes

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

Hal Duncan

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• My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Parents
  • Smart
  • Creative

• Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • United States
  • Trade
  • China

• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• You have to create something from nothing.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Create

• I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Read
  • Modern
  • Novels

• There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • Game
  • Green

• There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • You
  • Challenge

• Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Good
  • Opinion

• I look up to Mick Jagger because he's an amazing performer and he's such an individual. I respect him and admire him eternally.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Amazing

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Problem
  • Trump
  • Brand

• Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Leaving

• In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Great
  • Day
  • Film

• I can't really comment on rumors.

  

  Larry Page
  • Really
  • Rumors
  • Comment

• If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Would
  • Did

• As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• Honestly, this is a big thing to say, but I don't think I've ever been bored. If I even get an inkling of it, I split.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Bored

• I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

  

  Louise Nurding

• I will never vote for Donald Trump.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Trump

• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
  • People
  • Atmosphere
  • Pity

• Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

  

  Hal Duncan