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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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 human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.
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That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
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I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there.
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All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
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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.
