Harry Callahan Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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'EastEnders' has been wonderful to me and it's no secret that it changed my life all of those years ago. I'll be so sad to leave Peggy behind; she's such a wonderful character to play. I have had the pleasure of working with a marvelous cast and crew and have made many lasting good friends.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.
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My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.
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All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.
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When I ran for secretary of agriculture in Iowa in 1996, people... were sure that Iowans would not consider electing a woman to that position.
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You're a legend in your own mind.
