Gary Holt Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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For me, fashion is not about reality.
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.
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If you follow the trend, you'll always be right behind it.
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Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.
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You feel like people are looking at you like, 'I wanted the old Kathleen. Where's the old Kathleen?' I felt that way in the beginning of Le Tigre. I felt people were like, 'You're not angry enough anymore.' People still ask me that. 'Are you still angry?' I'm like, 'About what? About that question? Yes.'
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Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
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We ended up with an effective sentence of 5 1/2 years, so that's pretty close. I would be hard pressed to be upset over a question of six months.
