Harry Morgan (Harry Bratsberg) Quotes
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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If a movie is nominated for, say, an Academy award, that movie will instantly become popular in Japan. There's always been a bit of a complex the Japanese have about being taken seriously in the West.
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Writing is very hard: there will be weeks where I have nothing to write, and days I will get out three issues of the comic book as far as the outlines. It is a matter of there is nothing you can do about it – if the inspiration hits, it hits. If it doesn’t, there is nothing you can do to bring it out.
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My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.
