Hal Holbrook Quotes
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I spent a good amount of my time - like a lot of guys my age - obsessing and blowing things up with G.I. Joes. I know it well.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
