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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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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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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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my intent is always to wring the maximum emotional resonance out of the object in hand.
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I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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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.
