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Donald Hall Quotes

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

Donald Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Day Flowers Window Birds Better Sit

Because I'm 5'4' and athletically built, if I gain five pounds it looks like a lot.

Sophia Bush

Looks Gain Because Five Like Built

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

Roone Arledge

Respect Game Enjoy Go Air Against

You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'

Rush Limbaugh

Yourself Questions Innocence You Say

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Jonathan Dee

Feel Talking You Bad Place Want

As a young actor, I played a lot of 'exotic' parts and was stuck with the tag 'sultry.' I had to refuse such parts if I were ever to play anything else. It did the trick, but my agent feared it made me harder to cast.

Diana Quick

Me Play Young Actor Anything Cast

Some people can act Hollywood and others don't. I just try to live my life as a normal, everyday man. At times, fame does get to you. But you must stay positive and remember two things: It's easier to be happy, and without all those fans, life wouldn't be as good as it is.

Chumlee

Life Positive Good Live Man Happy

If you're in a city where there's no clear startup community, the goal is not raise a bunch of money to fund a nonprofit; the goal is not get your government involved. The goal is start finding the other entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to being in your city over the next 20 years.

Brad Feld

Community Money Government City Goal

I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by.

Tim Burton

Technology Age Day I Am Drawing Go

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

Lusia Strus

Theatre Choices Connection Always

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

Kent Haruf

Life Live Death Small Care You

There's nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to.

Kevin Spacey

Change Place Nothing Standing Being

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Miller

Truth Long Matter How Does Lives