Kathryn Harrison Quotes
I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
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As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
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At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.
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In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.
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I always felt my writing could benefit from the attention of established writers. I knew my work could grow and be better.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
