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Donald Hall Quotes

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Me Ahead Abandoned Seventies

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

Angela Duckworth

Work Science Day Parents Me Grit

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

Together Meeting Meet Way Days Show

When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.

Music Together Writing My Own Write

I hate it when people use the word 'sorry' aggressively, as in, 'Sorry, but I hate you.' Sorry's an important word, and it shouldn't be abused.

Hate People Sorry You Important Use

Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.

Confidence Trust Yourself People You

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Today You Yesterday Done Anything

Being in this position enables myself and others to deliver messages of positivity - we can broadcast to everyone just how beautiful this world is, and all the ways we can keep it beautiful by treating one another with kindness.

Kindness Beautiful Myself World Keep

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Trust Yourself Believe You More Far

I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

Anthony Hamilton

Dance Fun Me Colors Laugh Silly

As a filmmaker, you complete a film you have spent years obsessively making, and you know the release prints will never look quite the same; prints get scratched and dirty.

You Look Dirty Know Will Never

I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone.

Opinion Think Someone Will Voices

I suddenly got used to that feeling of being in control, which I never, ever feel when I'm not onstage - a feeling that you're the master of your own universe.

Control Universe Feel You Feeling

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