J.G. Holland Quotes

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

I just never was the marrying kind.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

Don't delay. It's getting late.

The Atonement of Jesus Christ is rightfully seen as the central fact, the crucial foundation, and the chief doctrine of the plan of salvation, which we are called to teach.

The race we are really in is the race against sin, and surely envy is one of the most universal of those.

The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles . . . of the gospel.

The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.

Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.

moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

To extract the fullest flavor of our drinking house, we needed to spend serious evening time there, slowly coming to know the bartender and the regulars, their joys and sorrows.

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

The nostalgic notion of the family orchards is lovely - all that wholesome fruit for our forebears to sit on the back steps biting into - but basically we were growing it to drink.

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

Single life should be experimental in nature and open to accidents. Some accidents are happy ones.

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship.

Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.