Kimberly Willis Holt Quotes
I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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I always loved to be a ham and be at the center of attention, always in everybody's faces.
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Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.
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I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
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I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
