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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I just can't read music.
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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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Back in those days we thought we could change the world.
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I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a family and work with the same people over the seasons.
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
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I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
