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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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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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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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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Everything is being televised so you won't be able to tell where the Revolution is. 'Who's revolting? Well, I don't know, what's on the other channel?'
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
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I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
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Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
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I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
