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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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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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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My favorite is Matthew 25: 'The Lord said, 'Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me.' I truly believe that.
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If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
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We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our lives, and it's something I think, as a society, maybe we shy away from.
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The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.
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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.
