Holly Near Quotes

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Holly Near

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It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?

Robert Stone

MeSomeoneWhyKnowingWatching

The catering on 'True Blood' was so good - I'd be eating amazing doughnuts all day, then realised I was in danger of turning into a right fat faerie.

Robert Kazinsky

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I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

Michael Ignatieff

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We're seeking out such grossness in human behavior and want such mindless entertainment. 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' and some of these other shows are more racist. Or '16 and Pregnant.' Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious?

Chelsea Handler

BehaviorYouSeriousWantAtlanta

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Music is a great catalyst for emotion because it gets to your core.

Chris Milk

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Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

Bobby Short

TodayWorldBlackOperaPosition

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are available today - so from that standpoint, playing with a cast on my arm was a fortunate event in my life.

Bob Cousy

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I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

WorkFoodSameEatYearsStill

I never do anything that doesn't feel natural to me. I wake up in the morning and I know what to put on - it's my sixth sense, really.

Poppy Delevingne

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I take the subway to work. I fly coach back and forth to Chicago.

Richard Edelman

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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

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