Albert Hammond, Jr. Quotes
It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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I have selective hearing.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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It's so funny because when I talk about fashion and menswear designers, it's really like a small percentage of my head. I don't mind talking about it, but I always worry that it's gonna seem to the outside world that that's all I think about.
