D. P . Hall Quotes

As a child I loved ghost stories.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated.

Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

If you say something, then it exposes you.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

It is a shame for the tongue to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of other's ears

It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

The life of doctrine is in application.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

I want the other riches in life; I want to get married.

I am a fan of history.

For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.