Andre Holland Quotes

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

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• The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Red
  • Blue

• I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Today

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Career
  • Song

• I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Care
  • Say
  • Less

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • True
  • Win
  • Award

• I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Kids
  • Special
  • Surprise

• You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Rest

• If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature
  • Bird

• For this will to deceive that is in things luminous may manifest itself likewise in retrospect and so by sleight of some fixed part of a journey already accomplished may also post men to fraudulent destinies.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • May
  • Journey

• In the mid-90s The older gods were falling off. EPMD were breaking. Chuck and Flav had taken us as far as they could, and already the new voices were being hijacked by the death cults. Brothers who last week were shouting out Malcolm were flipped into studio gangsters, killing every nigger in sight.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Death
  • Taken

• Requiring the Fed to focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar will create a solid foundation for economic growth.

  

  Kevin Brady
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Growth

• It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

  

  Avicii
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Inspired

• Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Different
  • Long
  • Model

• There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Running

• It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

  

  Carol Vorderman
  • Home
  • Hand
  • Childhood

• 'Purple Plumeria' I dithered over for months and then wrote the whole thing between the beginning of July and end of August. The dithering and procrastination time was three times the writing times.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• After years of hiding and holding off because of the trial, I finally announced my intent to change my name and transition to living as woman on 22 August 2013 - the day following my sentencing - a personal high point for me, despite my other circumstances.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • High
  • August

• Speaking via twitter on August 13, 2017 in response to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in harlottesville, Virginia and quoting Nelson Mandela. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017. Source: Bipartisan condemnation for 'Unite the Right' rally by CNN's Jennifer Hansler on August 13, 2017. Archived via Wayback Machine on August 14, 2017.

  

  Barack Obama
  • August

• I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

  

  Andre Holland
  • August