J. G. Holland Quotes
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
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In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle.
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Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.
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You take it for granted that interpretations of events change, but that certain definite events occurred that are beyond alteration. Instead, the events themselves are not nearly that concrete. You accept one probable event. Someone else may experience instead a version of that event, which then becomes that individual’s felt reality.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
