Tom Hollander Quotes
You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.
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Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.
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He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the...he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him.
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I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done."
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You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
