Rachel Holmes Quotes
Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

Quotes to Explore
-
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
-
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
-
Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
-
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
-
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
-
I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
-
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
-
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
-
You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
-
I've always had a little pooch. I just always have - that's just my body type. No matter how skinny I've been, it's always there. And now that I've had kids, I sort of don't mind as much because, you know what? What my stomach and my body went through is truly a miracle.
-
The world is founded on a pillar which is founded on the Deep.
-
Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
-
I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.
-
Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.