Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
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To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.
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I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
