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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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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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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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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 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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.
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I'm at that great level where fans will stop and say 'hi,' which I love, but the paparazzi don't care, which is incredible.
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The young people I teach now know they are being sold down the river before we even start studying the trends and numbers. That's the toughest part of being a high school economics teacher... being a witness when our children realize that the greatest deficit of all is a deficit of leadership.
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I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that Scripture only teaches the chief points of those true principles which lead to the true perfection of man, and only demands in general terms faith in them.
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I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.
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We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
