Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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There's definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it's nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.
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We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, and you're doin' the dishes with your sister, and you're like, 'Omigod, can you believe she said that?'
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
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Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.
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Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.
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Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.
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When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.
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I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.
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We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
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I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.
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Yeah, I graduated with a 4.0… blood alcohol level.
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Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.
