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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
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I think I spent more time on the mellotron than on any other instrument in the studio, and it got to the point where I was like, "Well, you can't write an entire album on this instrument." But maybe I would!
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It's important for someone who's dealt with violence to be able to talk to someone, no matter who it is. So I'm vocal about how I feel. That's how I've worked through a lot of my problems.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
