Andre Holland Quotes
I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.
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It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
