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Donald Hall Quotes

I'd heard of writers who say they hate to write. Not me. I love to do it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Hate Me Say Write Who

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

Dreams Live Heart I Am Believe True

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

Path Voice Hands Long Unique Acting

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

Jessica Savitch

Serious Peers Accepted Wanted Much

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

Painting Feel I Can Why Personal

The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.

History People Data Trying Living

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

Men Compromise Strong Weakness Said

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

Moment Losing Mum

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

You Los Angeles Never Enemies Your

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Art Money Politics Religion Writing

I really think me and my family live humbly. I've secured my life, and I won't have to open the newspaper and be looking for work.

Life Work Family Live Me Looking

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Faith Art Name Windows Used Made

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Deanna Raybourn

Romantic Fashion Story Mystery You

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