Kathryn Harrison Quotes
Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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Faith is personal if it's to be real.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.
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I don't think secrets are a bad thing. I think there's this idea that everything needs to be transparent in order for it to be free.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.
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A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
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Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
