Anthony Holden Quotes

• The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

  Anthony Holden

  Winning, Player, Winner

  Anthony Holden (2016). “Big Deal: One Year as a Professional Poker Player”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

  Anthony Holden

  Hands, Two, Cards

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Loss, Anecdotes, Literature

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• While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Sunday, Literature

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• As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.

  Anthony Holden

  Writing, Years, Literature

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• I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Two, Way

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• The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

  Anthony Holden

  Retirement, Princess, Years

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• I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.

  Anthony Holden

  Old Things, Messengers, Messages

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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• Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.

  Anthony Holden

  Wedding, Literature, Fairy Tale

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• Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

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• Among other things they picked out a detail that Charles had been offered the Governorship of Hong Kong in its dying days by Thatcher in return for shutting up about the inner cities. He quite rightly in my view led the paper on this story.

  Anthony Holden

  Views, Cities, Dying

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.

  Anthony Holden

  Wings, Literature, Pressure

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• The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

  Anthony Holden

  Years, Practice, Design

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• Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.

  Anthony Holden

  Attitude, Thinking, Years

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• What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

  Anthony Holden

  Nice, People, Literature

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• They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.

  Anthony Holden

  Real, Intelligent, Track

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• When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.

  Anthony Holden

  Growing Up, War, Princess

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• I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

  Anthony Holden

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

  Anthony Holden

  Insulting, Literature, Reputation

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• I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Journey, America

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• I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.

  Anthony Holden

  Thinking, Breathing Space, Media

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• I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.

  Anthony Holden

  Book, Thinking, Literature

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• A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

  Anthony Holden

  Couple, Book, Men

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