Anne Holm Quotes
And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.
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I am not a fan of books.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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The movie business is a big gamble.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.
