Jools Holland Quotes
When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I'm often asked how I get ideas for my stories. The answer is there's no single way; every story is different.
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What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
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The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.
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When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
