Donald Hall Quotes

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

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I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Andrew Motion

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Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

Jefferson Mays

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Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Alvin Adams

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Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.

Amanda Donohoe

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The largest automobile company in the world is Volkswagen. Who owns it? The answer is the government of Qatar.

Robert Zubrin

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I've been lucky in that I've always loved my job.

Ronnie Corbett

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If I signed it that is the way it really happened. I don't know of any individuals who are saying anything different. I have no idea what is going on with that.

Jose Canseco

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I was a guy who needed to go to class, because I had some raw talent that I thought was identifiable, when I finally made a decision to be an actor. And yet I wanted to learn how to really do the stuff. You know, 'How do I get to be a serious actor?'

Jon Voight

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I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

Brit Hume

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British period drama is always seen as kind of perfect and beautiful and lovely, but I don't think subcultures have been shone a light on like 'Peaky Blinders' has done.

Annabelle Wallis

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Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

Sebastian Pinera

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