Haniel Long Quotes
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
