Hal David Quotes

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

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• I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Mainstream

• 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.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • Girl
  • Singing
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Spiritual
  • Baby
  • Garden

• 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.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Eye
  • Tradition
  • Jews

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• 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.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Partner
  • Office

• 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.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Job
  • Together
  • Mom

• My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

  

  OMI
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Baby

• I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • May
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Work
  • Book
  • Together

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Praise

• I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Fight
  • Stand

• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Up
  • Will
  • Traffic

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Skepticism

• The question I ask myself when adapting a book is how do I be true to the spirit and soul of the character? How would I describe this character in my medium? If you asked one person to do a painting of something and another to create a sculpture of it, you'll never ask, 'Why doesn't the painting look like the sculpture?'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Why
  • Character
  • Book

• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.

  

  Colin Falconer
  • God
  • Love
  • Law

• Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

  

  Hal David
  • Emotion
  • Try
  • Others