Barbara Holland Quotes
Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregation. So rich are living with rich and poor are living with poor.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.
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I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.
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I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
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You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
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Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.
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Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.
