Dan Hill Quotes
Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I went to college in Iowa for a little bit and tried to get some bands together there. That was about a year of my life.
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Genius is of no country.
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Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
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Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
