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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Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.
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In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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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
