Donald Hall Quotes

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

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All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.

Andrew Rosenthal

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I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

Megan Hilty

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Being an actor is really, really hard, no matter how you slice it.

Amanda Peet

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Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.

Stephen Lang

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Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

Story Musgrave

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You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Tom Shales

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We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

Mike McGavick

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What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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I was intimidated by Malkovich for, like, a couple of days, and then I wasn't. He's awesome. He's so cool. He was so wonderful to work with.

Jonathan Levine

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Some acts are tricky. Eartha Kitt was tricky in a wonderful, old-style way. She did yoga on the piano and put her hands over her ears when the other acts were on.

Jools Holland

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I promote my own self-hatred.

Jonathan Ames

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We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Don Mattingly

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