Mark Hall Quotes
It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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I write emotional music.
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I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
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I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering.
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We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections.
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.
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What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.
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It's really more about the moment than it is the award. You know how trophies are, you don't really think about them after a while. It's more about the moment of being encouraged to keep doing what you're doing that keeps you going.
