David Holmgren Quotes
Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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I love working in New York.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17- and 18-year-olds, but for some reason I got the part. It made me incredibly unpopular with my peers, but it was the English and drama teachers who stepped in to save me when others wanted me kicked out of the school.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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Responsibility educates.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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The U.S. limits mercury, arsenic, and soot from power plants. Yet, astonishingly, there are no national limits on how much carbon pollution these plants can dump into our atmosphere.
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I'm an amateur.
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The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.
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They want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply 'This will make Hitchens look bad!' I've been trying to avoid solipsism, but I've come to believe there are such people.
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written.
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Although it is tempting to think of these natural landscapes as reflecting a stability in climactic and geologic forces, long periods of climactic and geophysical stability actually result in a rundown of the energy available to ecosystems and people. Geologically young regions with recent mountain building and volcanism tend to be much more biologically productive and have supported large populations of people despite their vulnerability to natural disasters. Geologically old regions (like most of Australia) tend to have low biological productivity and supported fewer people.
