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 moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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I have never dated. I have no experience. It's terrible, and I'm scared to death of it, too, at the same time.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I make the kind of music I like.
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I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.
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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.
