Hal Higdon Quotes
Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
-
To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
-
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.
-
Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
-
Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I don't 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.
-
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
-
I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?
-
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.
-
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
-
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.
-
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.
-
For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.
-
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood.
-
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
-
Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
-
Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
-
Hills. We love them. We hate them. They make us strong. They make us weak. Today I chose to embrace hills.
