Deborah Harkness Quotes
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I work with gold that holds our past and diamonds that see the future and rubies that long for love. It's just a way of telling a story.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I'm not taking jobs anymore where I'm getting paid a quarter of what the male co-star is being paid. I'm not allowing that in my life.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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I could have played another year, but I would have been playing for the money, and baseball deserves better than that.
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I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.
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I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
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I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
