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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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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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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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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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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One of the most powerful scientific tools ever invented is the telephone.
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Movies are about escape.
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The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.
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I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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War is an admission of failure
