Gary Holder-Winfield quotes

“I reject your impossible. Most of what others tell me is impossible I know to be improbable. If it is impossible you have nothing more to do but if it is improbable...you can choose to ask the unasked question or walk the unwalked step. For me that has made all the difference.”
-- Gary Holder-Winfield

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“Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many”
-- Gary Holder-Winfield

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“History, that is to be written tomorrow ...to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.”
-- Gary Holder-Winfield

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“Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life”
-- Gary Holder-Winfield

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“I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?”

Source : "One Small Step for Man, One Giant Leap for Autobots" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2011.

“The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.”

“If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”

“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183

“Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues.”

“At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.”

“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”

“We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”