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Hugh Prather Quotes

Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 23, 1938 - November 15, 2010

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Honesty Humble I Am Stupid Face

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

Hate People Me Book Better Write

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

Time Words Poetry Think Know Said

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

Good Man Mustache Reasons Many

I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, 'Here comes the fun - fun that knows its way around a dictionary.'

Love Women Fun Grace Think Look

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Angela Duckworth

Words Think Values Hold I Think Use

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Place Bed Talk Show Italy Talk Show

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Learn Acting Way Director Watch Sit

George Bush and I share a love of steel brush cutters. It turns out we use the same professional brush cutter. He asked me what I did. I said I cut brush. He says, 'Oh, what do you use?' I said steel. He goes, 'Oh, me too.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Love Me You Professional Said Steel

I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying to live a free life, America is not the country that I would think about going to considering how many rights the GOP is trying to take away.

Martina Navratilova

Life Live Free Think America You

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

Yourself Think You Kind Group Years

There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

Good Tax Important Policy Obvious

When we did 'The Jewel In The Crown,' we filmed in India first so the actors had an idea of what the heat was like, what it did to you - it slows you down; it's weighty: the air that you breathe is full of humidity. You are aware of the fact that you're not in a studio in Manchester.

Crown You Down India Heat First

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