Hal Sparks Quotes
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time.
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You are not ashamed of our luuurve, are you, Jas?' 'Look, shut up, people might hear.' 'What do you mean, the people who live in the telephone?
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
