J. G. Holland Quotes
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
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What Joe Wilson did is like a belch.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
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Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song - This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays.
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Of course I party. Of course I go chase girls. Again, for me, balance is important. One hundred per cent, my work goes first. Martin Garrix is my main priority. But to maintain Martin Garrix, I have to enjoy my downtime.
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I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
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Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
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Understanding money is part of being independent. You can't be self-sufficient if you're relying on someone else.
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The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.
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I live for what I haven't done.
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When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound
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When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.
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One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of a pure regard for truth,” wrote French philosopher, activist, and mystic Simone Weil. “Christ likes for us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
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Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
