John Hall Quotes
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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I like to do Pilates.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.
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I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.
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Being a leading man can come in many different forms.
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It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.
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Research shows that if patients believe they are taking the real drug, they are more confident of improving and, so, improve even if they are actually on the placebo. Conversely, if they suspect they are taking the placebo, their expectancy of improvement declines, and so does their improvement.
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I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
