Harry Shearer Quotes

Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

Harry Shearer

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• It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Always
  • Dreams
  • Insecurity

• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • World
  • Today
  • Rest

• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • War
  • Man
  • Creative

• As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Beauty
  • Kid
  • Legends

• For a long time he stood at the window looking at the shining rails. They had always fascinated him. Squinting a little he saw them stretch away to infinity, carrying him off to his rediscovered youth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Time
  • Long

• The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Reality

• Not only did life originate on earth very early in its history as a planet, but for the first two billion years, Earth was inhabited solely by bacteria.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • History
  • Earth

• I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• We need to think forward and keep making America greater. Not that old America, again.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • America

• Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Though involvement in music and the arts can't cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Help

• I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • Different
  • Strong

• I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Time
  • Why
  • Star

• I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • Job

• I didn't really start building my own stuff until I was 24, 25 or so, and even then, I ran into a lot of resistance from, like, older folks, like my bosses at other companies or people in the industry that were like, 'Oh that's an interesting idea, but it will never work.' And, I don't know, I kind of believed everything that they told me.

  

  Dennis Crowley
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington, D.C. When I graduated, I had the great fortune of being in the Los Angeles production of 'For Colored Girls'... And all these years since, I've done stage work.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Great
  • Band
  • Road

• My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

  

  Angie Stone
  • Mom
  • Sister

• On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

  

  John Abercrombie
  • Opportunity

• I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.

  

  David Naughton

• A lot of executives act like their time is worth more than anyone else's. But I always respect an employee who guards his or her time, even from me.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Time
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Autumn de Forest
  • School
  • Passion
  • Painting

• Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.

  

  Harry Shearer
  • Movie thinking