William Hartung Quotes
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.
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I think the future takes care of itself.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball.
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Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And I try to make it that way.
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What has happened along the Gulf Coast is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis, ... The Congress is committed to providing the funding necessary to not only offer immediate relief to the victims of Hurricane Katrina but to also help rebuild their lives and get them back on their feet.
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I have a puppy purse, and it's named after my doggie named Sammie, who is at home. It's from Poochie and Company.
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I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.
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I did three club tours before I started playing concert halls, and the clubs were half full the first time around.
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The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.
