Ian Holm Quotes
The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
Quotes to Explore
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
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To be without method is deplorable, but to depend entirely on method is worse.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
