Tony Hillerman Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.
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We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general.
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When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
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Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.
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Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.
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Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.
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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.