Geoffrey Holder Quotes

I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

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• Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Driving
  • Blame

• I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Cancer
  • Face
  • Big

• I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Change
  • Play
  • Hair

• Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Information
  • More
  • Liberals

• Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Earth
  • Building

• There's also a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Study
  • Discipline

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Hope
  • Free

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Disciples

• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture

• We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • God
  • February

• The male is a biological accident: the y(male) gene is an incomplete x(female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion.... To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Words
  • Emotional
  • Walking

• Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember

• There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.

  

  Livy

• I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.

  

  Edward Albee

• One of my strengths as a writer is that I'm a good problem-solver. I write these unthinking, ungoverned first drafts. The project for me always is to turn that instinctive stuff into pages that work.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Good
  • Work

• He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Wall
  • Impossible

• The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• I think everybody does go in expecting they're making 'Gone With The Wind' on their first movie. But you know, that's just not going to be the case, everybody. Hold onto your hat. Buckle in. It's probably going to take a few.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Movie
  • Wind

• I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

  

  Geoffrey Holder