Thomas Harris Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.
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I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
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Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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I hate to say it but Apple may end up reliving with iPhone its nightmare experience in the personal computer market - that is, arriving ahead of everyone else (in 1984) with a device that was really cool and really well built and really showed what the platform could do, but then keeping everything closed and thereby ending up a niche player.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
