Mark Harmon Quotes
I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
-
If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
-
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
-
Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
-
I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
-
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
-
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
-
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
-
The good reviews that people have told me about through the years haven't really helped me do my job. So it's kind of like, if your hair turns out right you want to go out, you don't just want to stay in and look in the mirror. That's kind of what reading a review is like to me; it's like reveling in something that's just one night.
-
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
-
Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
-
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
-
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
-
With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
-
There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.
-
They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.
-
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
-
I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
-
Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.
-
I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'
-
When do we reach a point where people become responsible for their own actions?
-
I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.
