Harry Shearer Quotes
The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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School always comes first. Because I'm home schooled I paint about three hours every day on a school day, but more on the weekends. So I have to get a lot of schoolwork done, but I always get it done and do the best I can and then I paint a bunch. I love painting. It's my career and it's my passion.
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I have no problem twisting the facts if it's the only way I can be true to the moment.
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We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.
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The racial categories that are used in a given society (for example, in contemporary America) are biologically meaningless, but sometimes it turns out that a vernacular racial category has biological reality.
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You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.
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I'm kind of over people using the word 'bae'. Let's get rid of that.
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I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.
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I would advice to focus on your craft. Nowadays, a lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.
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The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.
