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.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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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.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.
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I had to let my ego go a long time ago.
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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.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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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.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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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.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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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.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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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.
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I have long admired Univision - a pioneer in the industry - and recognized the tremendous potential and influence of the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic population.
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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.
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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.
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I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.
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The Corcoran show was actually almost a reportage. The exhibit was, in many ways, pretty unique. It was one of the first pieces about DC culture that doesn't include some marble building or the Kennedy Center.
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The director has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.
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A lot of times, people are simply interested in seeing me because I was on television.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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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.
