Hal David Quotes
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.
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We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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It's important for us to be kind to other people and treat other people the way that we want to be treated.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
