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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Don't follow trends, start trends.
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But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
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For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
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Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
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I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.
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I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.
