J. G. Holland Quotes
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I love action movies.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
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I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
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Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.
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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
