Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
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I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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In 'Roma,' I wanted to get across the idea that underneath Rome today is ancient Rome. So close. I am always conscious of that, and it thrills me. Imagine being in a traffic jam at the Coliseum! Rome is the most wonderful movie set in the world... As was the case with many of my film ideas, it was inspired by a dream.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
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If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
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It pleased the public to think I lived the easy, carefree life - the playboy of golf.
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I say that it is only by commercial union, reciprocal preference, that you can lay the foundations of the confederation of the Empire to which we all look forward as a brilliant possibility.
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I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.
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The easiest way to do something is properly.
