Harry Harrison Quotes
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
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I really never thought I would be an actor professionally. I was very academic and was like, "That's so irresponsible. I would never do that." And now, here I am.
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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.
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I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."
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I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?
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Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.
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I'm only two years older than Brad Pitt, but I look a lot older, which used to greatly frustrate me. It doesn't anymore. I don't have to fit into that category and get trounced by Tom Cruise and Brad.
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It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
