Thomas Harris Quotes
… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I have long been impressed with the focus on politics and that focus being... from young people.
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
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If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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If I get to spoil myself, I'm going to DQ. I always had it growing up, so I stick to it.
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
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I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
