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Hal Sparks
American
Actor
Born:
Sep 25
,
1969
Always
Guitar
Life
People
Time
You
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
Hal Sparks
Guitar
Sometimes
Like
Drummer
Frustrated
Play
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
Hal Sparks
Love
Time
Day
You
People
Believe
Would
Put
Genuinely
How
How Much
How Much Time
Time People
Little
Much
Little Time
Waste
Things
If I have anything, it's tenacity.
Hal Sparks
Tenacity
Anything
If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.
Hal Sparks
Life
Time
Freedom
You
Rights
Commitment
Mouth
Community
Willing
About
Put
Days
Know
Talk
Equal
Equal Rights
Hear
Lot
Quite
Where
Which
Mean
Then
Your
Include
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
Hal Sparks
Illusion
Benefit
Security
Having
Said
Always
Actor
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks
You
People
Important
Think
Some
Emotional
Calculator
Know
Operate
Equally
How
Math
Replace
Optional
Human
Arts
Interaction
Depth
Skill
Skills
Teach
Thing
Level
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Hal Sparks
Happiness
Life
Musicians
People
World
Dust
Out
Cartoons
Tend
Like
Leave
Exist
Often
Just
Artists
Substitute
Meaning
Pop
Deeper
Grunge
There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.
Hal Sparks
Me
Hesitation
About
Never
Doing
Just
Thing
Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
Hal Sparks
Enjoy
See
More
Mainly
Industrial
Go
Than
Espionage
Going
Unfortunately
Show
Actually
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks
Kids
Would
Supports
Still
George
George Bush
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Anyone
Bush
Who
Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
Hal Sparks
Chubby
Kind
Throwing
Redneck
Version
Lions
Just
Just Kind
Jerry
Christians
Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
Hal Sparks
You
Jokes
Timing
Find
Some
Crowd
Vegas
Attention
Come
Audiences
Shift
Shifts
Heartbeat
Different
Psychology
Places
Room
Whitman
Different Places
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
Hal Sparks
Old
Since
Doing
Been
Years
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
Hal Sparks
Knowledge
Guitar
Sometimes
Try
Focus
Neglected
Guitar Players
Would
Lead
Part
Come
Like
Drummer
Instrument
Lot
Grew
Decided
Rhythm
Frustrated
Skill
Noticed
Naturally
Found
Play
Players
Started
As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
Hal Sparks
Hope
Music
You
Comedy
Feelings
Naked
Stage
Rage
Once
Most
Sorrow
Genuine
Fit
Up
Get
Personal
Intense
Intensely
Often
Place
While
Them
Act
Stand
Acting
Stand Up
Express
Things
I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
Hal Sparks
Life
Gay
You
Own
Relationships
Heterosexual
About
Case
Something
My Own
Open
Catch
Contagious
Make
Learn
Because
Person
Any
Lack
Want
Choose
Thereof
Need
'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks
News
Business
Myth
Cold
Detail
Details
No Interest
Case
Similar
Seems
Chat
Points
Idea
Like
Force
Sticker
Continue
Fit
Up
Bumper
Bumper Sticker
American
Bang
Which
Interest
Certain
Stand
Files
Shows
Thirst
Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.
Hal Sparks
Needs
You
Rest
Poison
Innovative
Run
Financially
Someone
Remind
Sound
American
CEOs
Us
Company
I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
Hal Sparks
Technology
Problem
Sense
Community
Every
Our
Way
Out
Almost
New
Create
Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks
Song
Words
Had
Major
Major Influence
How
Craft
Influence
All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
Hal Sparks
Art
Day
Musicians
Job
Parents
Beginning
Live
Guess
Unless
Simply
Day Job
Another
Still
Just
Form
In The Beginning
Lucky
Need
I like struggle.
Hal Sparks
Struggle
Like
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process.
Hal Sparks
Change
Political
Always
Process
Social
Social Change
I'm a futurist.
Hal Sparks
I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
Hal Sparks
Writer
Like
Things
Dissecting
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