Kathryn Harrison Quotes
For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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The Allies had the resources, industry, and logistics of an entire planet. The Axis, on the other hand, had to depend on what scant assets they could scrape up within their borders. This time we were the Axis.
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Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
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The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.
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To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
