Hannes Holm Quotes

I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

Hannes Holm

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• Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Life
  • Career
  • Humor

• Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Small
  • Light
  • Cooking

• Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rich

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Team
  • Games

• New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Women
  • Art
  • Innovation

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Moment

• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • People
  • Time
  • Mother

• When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Help
  • Cancer
  • Jump

• The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Science
  • Process
  • Interior

• Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Political
  • Law
  • Abuse

• From my youth onwards, I have felt sure that all thought which thinks itself out to an issue ends in mysticism. In the stillness of the African jungle I have been able to work out this thought and give it expression.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Work

• Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Great
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

  

  David Amram
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Guy
  • Education

• A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

  

  Kenneth Jay Lane
  • She

• I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • God
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Personality
  • Cult
  • Obama campaign

• No Christian assumes the Jews are right about everything, but they knew God during tens of centuries during which my ancestors were worshiping trees and eating each other, so when they talk, I listen.

  

  Stephen Graham
  • Christian
  • Tree
  • Eating

• I love filmmaking because it's like harvesting as a farmer. I have an idea, I get the financing, I write the script and then cast and shoot and edit. Then there is opening night, and after that I get another idea.

  

  Hannes Holm
  • Idea
  • Farmer
  • Filmmaking