Ernest Holmes Quotes
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped.
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.
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The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.
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Where the mind goes energy flows.
