David Holt Quotes
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
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My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
