Larry Holmes Quotes
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
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Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.
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He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.
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The only way to do the best you can is to work as hard as you can.
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I would like to believe that I am a collaborative actor. That's why I love all the directors I have worked with in recent times, as they are all collaborative directors. I think my constant desire is to keep bettering my own work. I don't get easily satisfied with my work; I am very critical of it. I learn from my mistakes.
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When we made 'Toy Story,' journalists were more interested in talking about the technique because it was so new and unknown, and we just wanted to talk about the story.
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The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.
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What we're trying to do is address something I saw in Congress that was a major problem, which is to say that energy is arguably the most fundamental issue confronting our country.
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This was the wonder of advertising; the complete absence of cynicism. It may have many mansions, but it has no room for Doubting Thomases.
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.
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I'm very happy, safe, and secure with television industry. I'm not over-ambitious.
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
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But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.
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There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.
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If you're fortunate to get a first album that sells 10 million you have nowhere to go but down. I'm just going to be honest and your measuring stick is so high that haters are licking their chops because you can't do nothing but fail.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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It wasn't until I saw 'Rocky' that I realized movies could affect people beyond mere entertainment.
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There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
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If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.
