M. John Harrison Quotes
She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.
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Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
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Neither do I have the time or the luxury of having a relationship. I don't want to get into fights with someone because I have no time for him.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.
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She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
