Marjorie Holmes Quotes
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.
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Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population, and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denigrated.
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When you look at organised religion of whatever sort - whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism - wherever you see organised religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
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Whites have traded their culture for power.
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This is really a slow go if it's a tear. What we do know is these are the type of injuries you've got to let heal, go slow with.
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A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
