Donald Hall Quotes

I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.

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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The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Matt Groening

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It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Andy Summers

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So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Steve Carlton

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George III's ability to step in and out of his role fed stories of commoners chancing upon a sturdy gentleman by the wayside who later turned out to be the king.

Amanda Foreman

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Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

Rita Ora

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Any exercise is better than nothing, even if it's only five minutes.

Mary Helen Bowers

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You have to respectfully listen to advice.

Miguel Cabrera

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I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.

Jean Alesi

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It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

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The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

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Attacking racism and discrimination is a very important way to work against radicalisation.

Deeyah Khan

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Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

Chris Rock

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