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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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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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.
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I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.
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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.
