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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
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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.
