J. G. Holland Quotes
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.
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I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
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I love that I love my job, and from what I'm told, that others who I work with do, too.
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Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.
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The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
