J. G. Holland Quotes
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
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Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
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The pig is the most shameless animal on the face of the earth. It is the only animal that invites its friends to have sex with its mate. In America, most people consume pork. Many times after dance parties, they have swapping of wives; many say 'you sleep with my wife and I will sleep with your wife.' If you eat pigs then you behave like pigs.
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
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Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
