D. P . Hall Quotes

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Girls in my school were always prettier.

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.

When I go out with my 16-year-old friends, I don't wear Chanel.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

You have to understand the nature of light.

Sports are not for everyone.

Everything is instincts when returning kicks.

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... this can be applied to any situation.

I am not the fastest but I am always as fast as I need to be.

Hopefully, commercials are fun to do and watch so maybe there are more for me in the future.

I have a book! It's called 'How Does She Do It?' and it's 35 years on camera.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.

To grow old is to lose everything.

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.

Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Joe DiMaggio batting sometimes gave the impression, the suggestion that the old rules and dimensions of baseball no longer applied to him, and that the game had at last grown unfairly easy.

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

We made in those days tiny identical rooms inside our bodies which the men who uncover our graves will find in a thousand years shining and whole.

Can build plane... Delivery about three months.

An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has evolved over the past century and a half.

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens.

I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I love my kids and would rather be with them than anyone in the whole wide world.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I suppose they're confident. I think younger guys love the idea of a divorced woman who's going to teach them how to be a man.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

The task that lies before me is daunting and the rewards are uncertain. I should probably let someone else do it.