Marjorie Holmes Quotes
There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.
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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
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I was born with an evil face.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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I just keep active - everything that's challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
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Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.
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There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.
