Hal Sparks Quotes
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.
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During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
