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Anthony Holden Quotes

He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.

Anthony Holden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: May 22, 1947

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Life Time Writing Think Worry You

I was amazed at the house that I grew up in; it looks practically identical to the way it was, but I couldn't recognize it because of the size of the trees.

Jim Fowler

Trees House Looks Way Size Up

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Jock Sturges

Work Focus Artist Involved Going

William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.

Jennifer Haigh

Me Spark Place Why Admire Possible

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

John Eaton

Life Energy Capture Need

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

Melvin Van Peebles

Enough Independent Clever Real Juice

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.

Ann Oakley

Nothing Duty Than Families Idolatry

I listen to a lot of singers, because I find phrasing to be one of the most essential elements of playing.

Stefon Harris

Find Listen Playing Because Elements

If I could eat whatever I wanted every day, I would have Domino's pizza with pasta carbonara inside every slice. And at night, I would have Neapolitan ice cream until I felt absolutely toxic. And then I would drift off telling myself, 'It's going to be O.K... It's going to be O.K. you're going to train in the morning.'

Robert Downey, Jr.

Morning Myself Day Pizza Night You

It's your human right to push back against something you disagree with. You do that by voting for that guy instead of that guy, or that lady instead of that lady.

Rob Halford

Voting Push Lady You Back Right

My songs are all personal.

Mike Posner

Personal Songs

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Dorothea Dix

Words Memory Ideas Think Language

I grew up in a small town in coastal South Carolina. Where I'm from, the people are known as Gullah people. They're some of the first freed slaves that lived on their own, without being attached to the rest of the U.S.

Brian Stelfreeze

People Small Rest Small Town First