John Harrigan Quotes
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.
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We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
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I'm trying to create a collection of stories - the 'U.F.O.W.A.V.E.' songs are all stories. I haven't really taken direct lyrical influence from other songwriters, but my dad bought me a book of W.H. Auden's poems when I was younger, and the imagery really interested me.
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Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.
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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
