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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You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.
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I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.
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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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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.
