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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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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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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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
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People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
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There are rumors that we want to move back to the U.K., but we're so happy in America I actually can't see us ever leaving... People ask me how long it took to adapt. Twenty minutes.
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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 can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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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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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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I wouldn't say that I have overcome opposition so much as I have tried to understand it. The lash of judgment carries a wounding sting, and there's a deeply instinctual tendency to want to respond in kind. I am not proud that my thoughts were blackened with vile opinions about the nature of those who were attacking me.
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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.
