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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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.
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As more government functions are privatized, we find political leaders defunding the public school system, shifting government funds to the private, for-profit school industry.
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Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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War is an admission of failure
