M. John Harrison Quotes
I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
