Marjorie Holmes Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.
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Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
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From time immemorial man has been made in such a way that his vision of the world, so long as it has not been instilled under hypnosis, his motivations and scale of values, his actions and intentions are determined by his personal and group experience of life.
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We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.
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Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
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Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
