Barbara Holland Quotes
Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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There is nothing more worrisome to ISIS than cooperation between 'the West' and the Muslim world, for it defies the narrative of a clash of civilisations the group is trying to revive.
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We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
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I wonder if there is anything to discover.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.
