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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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.
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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.
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I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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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.
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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.
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The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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We thank God that our enemies are idiots. (6 February 2006) 10
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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.
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There is always more spirit in attack than in defense.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
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He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.
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Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.
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As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.
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In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.
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I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.
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Art is not some sort of guideline for understanding. It's a thing unto itself.
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...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.
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I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.
