Tom Hollander Quotes
I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
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That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something.
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A single element in transactional mode can never be analysed to calculate either loss or presumptive loss. The losses or gains of all elements in the transaction need to be analysed.
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There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
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I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
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I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.
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I like to think of myself as versatile, and I certainly have the most varied career, so I'm very, very lucky in that.
