J. G. Holland Quotes
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I always loved going to Hawai'i; it was very, very special.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.
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If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
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I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard.
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We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.
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I think, at first blush, the '60s always enticed me. There's something about the '60s, it's not hard to like it.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
