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'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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I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene.
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For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
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You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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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.
