Kathryn Harrison Quotes
I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
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There's something bizarrely funny about a guy who doesn't realise he's, in essence, a dog chasing his own tail.
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There's nothing like a debate to teach one quickness. I often wish I had gone in for them when I was a youngster. It would have helped me no end.
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I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
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One person's religion is another person's cult.
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I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
