Hal Needham Quotes

I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.

Hal Needham

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• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

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• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.

  

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• I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.

  

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• I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

  

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• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  

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• I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

  

  Jacob Dalton
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• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

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• Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member, and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.

  

  Laura Wasser
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• An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense of reality should be strengthened from the beginning, yet by no means at the cost of those lofty illusions we call patriotism, veneration, love.

  

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• When I was 14, in Cuba, I met Fidel Castro with my dad, and it was really impressive. And on a totally different level, I met Justin Timberlake!

  

  Dylan Penn
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• I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

  

  Bill Hicks
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• If not for radio, I'd probably be working at the local supermarket doing who knows what. But after I got that first break at 16, I was not going to do anything else. I had my mind set on radio one way or another.

  

  Carl Kasell
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• I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

  

  Alexis Bledel
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• If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.

  

  Allu Arjun
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• My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.

  

  James Nesbitt
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• My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

  

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• I've always wrote off the demographic of superhero films because it's just not really something I can relate to.

  

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• I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
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• Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

  

  Kevin Kwan
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• If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
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• It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.

  

  Diana Ross
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• Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What's not to love!

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
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• I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

  

  William Sleator
  • Writing
  • Always
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• I was beginning to think I had let 'my alligator mouth overload my jaybird ass.

  

  Hal Needham
  • Alligator mouth
  • Jaybird ass