Thomas Holcroft Quotes
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.
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The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.
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The battle sunk towards the horizon. Presently it would be gone, leaving a sky unsullied by human affairs.
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I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow-men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.
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The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.
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For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
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To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.
