Kathryn Harrison Quotes

I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Eyes
  • Accident

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Politicians
  • Useless

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• It is said that we live, move and have our being in God. We find this concept expressed often in the Koran, not in those words of course, but just as beautifully and more tersely... when we realize the meaning of this saying, we are already preparing ourselves for the gift of the power of direct spiritual experience.

  

  Aga Khan III
  • Meaning
  • Concept
  • Koran

• It feels wonderful to get praise from other authors who I admire, but with each new book, my confidence is always the thing I struggle with the most until I start getting positive feedback from readers.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Book
  • Positive
  • Confidence

• Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Book
  • Blessed
  • Guide

• I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

  

  Elwood G. Norris
  • Book
  • Fear
  • Find

• I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Book