Harry Connick, Jr. Quotes
I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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I'm not a machine.
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I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.
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You can road-test relationships.
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Like most authors, I also love to read.
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In 'Dark Skye,' I rewrote every one of the Pandemonia scenes over and over before I was happy with them - hundreds of pages are now sitting in a folder called 'Cuttings,' never to be read. Ouch!
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Tom Kenny is awesome.
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Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.
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No company or organization filled with unhappy people will ultimately rise to its highest potential.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.
