Kathryn Harrison Quotes
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
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FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.
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The theatre has always been to me a place where beautiful lies are told, and playwrighting the orchestration of platitudes around a central flaw in logic or a ridiculous idea. Acting — the disguise and impersonation — is an art of deception.
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After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?
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When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
