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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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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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 a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.
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Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did.
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Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.
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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests. I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
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Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.
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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.
