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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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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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'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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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.
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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.
