Thomas Harris Quotes
In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
