Raymond Hull Quotes
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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I hope Greece is going to remain in the Euro zone.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
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If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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And let its meaning permeate each day. Whatever comes, This too shall pass away.
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He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
