Barbara Holland Quotes
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
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I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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in the unliterary grammar of life, where the future tense stands first, and the past is formed, not from the indefinite, but from the present indicative, 'to have been' is 'to be'.
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Science fiction is an extension of science.
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I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.
