Carla Hall Quotes
My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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I caught the acting bug from my dad.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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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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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
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Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.
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I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
