M. John Harrison Quotes
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I do feel I have a responsibility to empower women and to inspire them.
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Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.
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Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.
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A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
