Hal Higdon Quotes

Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

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• Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Most
  • Terror
  • Sacred

• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Children
  • Soul
  • Evil

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Success
  • Man

• Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Everything
  • Difference
  • More

• Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Space
  • Baby
  • Moon

• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• I've long been a fan of Chiwetel Ejiofor. I think he's a great actor. He's my kind of guy. He does what I aspire to do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Great
  • Long
  • Think

• I don't get claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Get
  • Claustrophobic

• When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and look up at the clock and see to my astonishment that three hours have passed.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Live
  • Effort

• What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Time

• Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Real
  • Freedom
  • Lies

• I happened to have the privilege of serving in Congress. It will be 16 years at the end of this term. And I think I made a difference here on important issues.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Important

• Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Time
  • Past

• For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Women
  • She

• For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Work

• 'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Great
  • Kids

• I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Today
  • Artist
  • Years

• When I use the term "complex realism", what I'm suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature. If reality today is different from the reality of 30 years ago, we can't keep describing reality in the same way as we did 30 years ago.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • Today
  • Realism
  • Describing

• Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Today
  • Strong
  • Hate