Barbara Holland Quotes
The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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I don't have goals in life.
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When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.
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The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
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My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
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I'm not interested in fad songs.
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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
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I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.
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If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
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On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through.
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I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.
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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
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My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.
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I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired me as one of the newer, cutting-edge documentary filmmakers. I see those films, and I'm just instinctively drawn to them.
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You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
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I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.
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The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.
