Hal Porter Quotes
Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms, these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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Kadar died as a mass killer, and the Hungarian nation can't forget that.
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War seems to come out of nowhere, like rust that suddenly pops up on iron after a storm.
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
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President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.
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When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
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There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
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I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no—sympathy—sentiment—nonsense.
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms, these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted straight from literature and yet, life successfully aping art, they are alive, and fulfil their destinies - or act their parts - flawlessly.
