Noy Holland Quotes

Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want.

Noy Holland

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• Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • You
  • Depression
  • Medication

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • High
  • Amazing

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • You
  • Winning
  • Pride

• At nine, my mom used to tell me she saw an Olympic medalist in me. I used to take it as a joke, but she was very serious.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Time
  • School
  • Theatre

• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Happy
  • Today

• I want to see more sports in schools.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Want
  • Sports
  • See

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Kind
  • Worth
  • Paper

• I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Love
  • Hip Hop

• Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Different
  • Important
  • Writing

• There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • People
  • Kids
  • Power

• She had to get up today to check her cell phone messages and to critique the photos they were using of her in the newspapers.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Up
  • She
  • Today

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Great
  • Help

• It's smart to be thrifty.

  

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  • Smart
  • Thrifty

• 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

• And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Presence
  • Acknowledged
  • Red Death

• True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Rest
  • Reflection
  • Realizing

• It takes a lot for a show to withstand the test of time.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Takes
  • Withstand

• Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want.

  

  Noy Holland
  • Presence
  • Wanting
  • Withstand