M. John Harrison Quotes
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I want to try everything.
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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
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Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.
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I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
