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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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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So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.
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We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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Childhood reading is so important.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
