Tom Holt (K. J. Parker) Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I think each track tells a different story about what I'm going through. But overall it's just me being young, my love of alcohol, and my love of turning up.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.
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There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.
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War is an admission of failure
