J. G. Holland Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
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People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
