Sean Harris Quotes
When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
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God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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When you do a remake, there's a lot of pressure because people always love the original.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.
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The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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My love life is not a priority.
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I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
