Anthony Holden Quotes
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
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I know, as an actor, you have to negotiate, but I can't handle the whole idea that art and commerce are synonymous. It drives me nuts.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
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I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.
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I believe in numbers and signs.
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And with the Afghan war ending, this needs to be the year Congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainee transfers and we close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, because we counter terrorism not just through intelligence and military action but by remaining true to our constitutional ideals and setting an example for the rest of the world.
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Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
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If I allowed 'next $label' then I'd also have to allow 'goto $label', and I don't think you really want that...
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I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
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Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude descending the stairs' is the result of the desire for motion. Here he has also eliminated representative form. This avoids the connotation of ideas which would interfere with the success of the main issue - the sense of movement.
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I try so hard not to get upsetBecause I know all the trouble Ill getOh, he tells me tears are something to hideAnd something to fearAnd I try so hard to keep it insideSo no one can hear.
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What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
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After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.
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My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and frequently it wasn't.
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There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
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The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban landmines...I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them. And that's not funny....OK, well, if I say that, I might get a shock laugh, but it's not really satire.
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But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come the person who reminds you of your own capacity to surprise yourself, to put at risk everything that’s dear to you. Who reminds you of the distances we have to bridge to begin to know anything about one another. Who reminds you that what seems to be—even about yourself—may not be. That like him, you need to be forgiven.
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I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.
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When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
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I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
