J. G. Holland Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
-
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
-
Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
-
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
-
I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
-
I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
-
The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
-
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
-
It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
-
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
-
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
-
I always have bananas with me for energy.
-
I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
-
I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
-
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
-
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
-
I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
-
Being an actor is not like any other job. It's not easy.
-
In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
-
Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
-
Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.
-
It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there.
-
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
