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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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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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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The legal subordination of one sex to another - is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a system of perfect equality, admitting no power and privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
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I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
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Where the mind goes energy flows.
