Brad Holland Quotes
In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.
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Russia is a perfect partner in this direction.
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From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.
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Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.
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Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
