Thomas Harris Quotes
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Thomas Harris
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
Patrick J. Adams
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Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?
Gael Garcia Bernal
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What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
Paolo Sorrentino
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
Orson Scott Card
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
Ambrose Bierce
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When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
Charlene Tilton
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I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.
Danny Gokey
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Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.
Charles B. Rangel
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The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
Branford Marsalis
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Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
Bruce Kent
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I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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I don't like to look a man in the eye.
Lech Walesa
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
Antonia Fraser
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.
Bret Lott
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I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
Brandon Flowers
The Killers
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Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Thomas Harris
