Conrad Hall Quotes
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.
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Country music has always sort of been country music.
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I think it is tiring to listen to digital music for too long.
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For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions of the body, the muting of the mind as driven by the body. My father had died some years ago so he haunts the book too, just floats through it ghost-like. But, the writing of every book is different for me. They are so like living creatures, these books, so I don't know what's carried over into the writing of the next things - except maybe that I'm best when I make my writing practice a routine.
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Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
