D. P . Hall Quotes

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

You must always be very cautious and be as vigilant as you can. You work diligently to provide a secure environment,.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.

The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.

No matter how much you want to say you've got all these plans ahead. The moment is all you got.

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

No matter what happens, you can get through this day. Inhale. Focus on the word, 'relax. Exhale. Say, 'I can do this!' And then do it.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

There is no formula to making it to the NFL other than good fortune and and playing well in college.

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

For most baseball fans, maybe oldest is always best. We love baseball because it seizes and retains the past, like the snowy village inside a glass paperweight.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

The greatest kindness would put a bullet in his bright eye.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

For me, that's where my spiritual practice comes in. It's come from a lot of people that I've met that have influenced me over the years, and it's remembering those people, what they taught me.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.