Anders Holm Quotes
To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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I never wear pants in my life. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss wearing pants. For the first time in my life, I miss my pants.
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When you're on stage, you're in control. No one can get to you.
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.
