Andre Holland Quotes

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

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• Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Mess

• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Imagination

• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Competition
  • Organization
  • Blow

• Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

  

  Hans Bender
  • You
  • Fashion
  • Create

• I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Now

• Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Reasonable

• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • History
  • Past
  • Change

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Obvious
  • Other

• Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • She
  • Perfect
  • Coach

• My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Real

• The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

  

  Tan Le
  • Wish
  • Brain
  • I Wish

• Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Bad
  • Forever

• Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Film

• I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Bad
  • Listening

• I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby

• I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.

  

  Brad Stine
  • Fear
  • Suffer
  • Phobias

• When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.

  

  Darin Strauss
  • Mind

• I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

  

  Andre Holland