John Holt Quotes
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.
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You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
