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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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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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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I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
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It was getting to be the end of the day. The sun was somehow setting again. A man could stand in the street and tell a perfect stranger a story of such incomprehensible evil that it really seemed as if the sun should stop shining altogether. But there was no alteration in Heaven, no sign that the cries of children had been heard.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
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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.
