Harry Shearer Quotes
The theater business is very much about Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."
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I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
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I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.
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I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.
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If you focus upon whatever you want, you will attract whatever you want. If you focus upon the lack of whatever you want, you will attract more of the lack.
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The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.
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Songwriting is such a sensitive energy. It's just a vibration of frequencies.
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She looks to be about three, the same age as his daughter at home in California...the girl's eyes are open. She seems to be cowering...Graves reaches in to pick her up- thinking about what medical supplies he might need to treat her...when the top of her head slides off and her brains fall out.
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A friend told me about a Nike competition, where they give you one minute to do tricks with a basketball. I wasn't going to go, but they were giving away free sneakers. I ended up coming in second place.
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I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument - their intellect - which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously.
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All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.
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I get way down in the music / Down inside the music.
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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
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I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.
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I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
