Anne Holt Quotes

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Heart
  • Place
  • Special

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Music
  • Why
  • True

• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Young

• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Feel
  • Body

• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Country
  • Small

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Beginning
  • End

• For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Childhood
  • Short
  • Homework

• There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Football
  • Head
  • Medical

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• Maybe I need to make a change, or maybe it's living here in New York or using social media or working in media and entertainment, but I feel like I'm constantly trying to maintain this sense of, 'Why do I do what I do?'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Change

• History reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • History
  • True

• What did we build it for? Was it all a dream? . . .Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam . . .And after a while they will fall to dust and rain;Or else we will tear them down with impatient hands;And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Dream
  • Earth
  • Fall

• It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.

  

  Khalid
  • Age

• I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Perfect

• When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

  

  Clive Thompson
  • Space
  • Baseball
  • Birthday

• What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

  

  Anne Holt
  • People
  • Society
  • Afraid