Gary Holder-Winfield Quotes
Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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The operation of the imagination in life is more significant than its operation in or in relation to works of art... in life what is important is the truth as it is, while in arts and letters what is important is truth as we see it.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.
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I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.
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The absence of diverse voices leads to policies and programs that adversely impact African-Americans.
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The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.
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We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.
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The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.
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Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many
