Thomas Harris Quotes

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

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• I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.

  

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

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• I would say that 'Shake It Up' was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.

  

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• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

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• The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

  

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• 25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!

  

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• It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

  

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• I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

  

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• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

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• When you are in an unpleasant environment that makes you feel uncomfortable, one of the key ways to improve that situation is through design. That's why I think it is so important to help develop and showcase young designers, as they are our future.

  

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• Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

  

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• Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

  

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• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

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• Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I get them both very rare.

  

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• You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Intellectual
  • Vanity
  • Appeals