Kimberly Willis Holt Quotes

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Gym
  • Diet
  • Vegetarian

• I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Know
  • Written
  • Arts

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Great
  • Done
  • Book

• You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Page

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
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  • Romantic

• I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Think

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
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  • America
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• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
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• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
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• Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Country
  • Democracy
  • Lies

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • House
  • Parents
  • Myself

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

  

  James Buchan
  • Violence
  • Profound

• I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Independent

• When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Time
  • Good
  • May

• 'Doesn’t it scare you, having your death close by all the time?' said Lyra. 'Why ever would it? If he’s there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.'

  

  Philip Pullman
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• When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
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