Thomas Harris Quotes
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.
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I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
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Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
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As my poor father used to sayIn 1863,Once people start on all this ArtGoodbye, moralitee!
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I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.
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A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.
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Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.
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While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.
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I haven't gotten jobs because I'm famous or I have a big Twitter feed - it's primarily directors. People employ me because I'm right for the part. But then, everybody needs a bit of luck, being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.
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I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
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Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive.
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He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
