Kathryn Harrison Quotes
I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have to make, and I'm pretty used to it now. It mainly depends on the wave conditions... I only get half the waves everyone else rides, so mine have to be good!
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
