Thomas Harris Quotes
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Normally my problem is that I'm too inquisitive and want to do everything.
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I write about what's on my mind. It's like a stress reliever.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'
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All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
