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 don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
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People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.
