Hal Summers Quotes
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
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Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.
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One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.
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Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.
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So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
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People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
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The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
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There's not one day that goes by that I'm not listening to one of my songs or in rehearsal for one of my songs or dancing to one of my songs.
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Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
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I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
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I truly hope readers learn to believe in their imaginations and their ability to shape their own lives. That's what 'The Girl Who Smiled Beads' means to me.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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Sleep away the years, sleep away the pain, wake tomorrow - a girl again.
