Hal Needham Quotes
When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That’s where you could really shine if you were really good at it.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.
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If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
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What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.
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But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true.
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I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.
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Interior. Within a few minutes a bell from within started to toll.
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I talk about my team a lot. I feel like people are the most important part of the puzzle.
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Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
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We put on fights between the best fighters; we don’t put on freak shows.
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The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal, but in westerns it usually plays out on a big stage.
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The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.
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When I came in, Westerns were the big thing, so I did horse falls, transfers, bulldogs, big fights. That’s where you could really shine if you were really good at it.
