J. G. Holland Quotes
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
Quotes to Explore
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Now they can do all these magic things with computers. So you think you get to do something in a movie and you find out you don't get to really do it.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
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Who you are as a person is more special than trying to be someone you're not. Don't get me wrong - I have bad days, everyone does, but I know if I'm feeling insecure today, I'll move on tomorrow. I'd tell girls to realise it's OK to have bad days to get to the good ones.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
