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

  Escritura, Años, Literatura

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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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• Considera la posibilidad de desarrollar todo tu ser con la misma concentración e intensidad con la que desarrollas una habilidad concreta. Céntrate. Sal, vive aventuras. Corre, salta, pellízcate la rodilla, enamórate, anima a gritos al equipo visitante en un partido de béisbol, escapa por los pelos de un choque de rinocerontes en estampida, vive para ver otro día. Experimenta cosas grandes y pequeñas. Sal a pasear. El mundo está lleno de maravillas.

  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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• No sólo gente como yo puede escribir cosas que antes nunca se habrían publicado, sino que creo que se ha producido un cambio enormemente drástico en la opinión pública, posiblemente por las razones equivocadas.

  Anthony Holden

  Tomar, Escribir, Pensar

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• Entre otras cosas, destacaron el detalle de que Thatcher había ofrecido a Charles la gobernación de Hong Kong en sus últimos días a cambio de que se callara sobre las ciudades del interior. En mi opinión, lideró con razón el periódico en esta historia.

  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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• Cuando las jóvenes princesas Isabel y Margarita estaban creciendo, esto estaba en su apogeo y la Guerra lo consolidó con fotografías de la Familia Real desayunando juntos, etc., al basar su reputación tan firmemente en este tema en particular.

  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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• 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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• Cuando el magistrado dice 'Esa no es una razón suficiente mi hombre'. Él dijo 'Disculpe, ¿puedo preguntarle? ¿Ha prestado juramento de lealtad al monarca?

  Anthony Holden

  Taken, Men, Umpires

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• What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.

  Anthony Holden

  Space, Giving, Feelings

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