Thomas Harris Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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Me, I don't need money.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to shine, evenings to follow, and then I sleep. What I have done, what I am doing, what I am going to do, puzzle and bewilder me. Have you ever been a leaf and fallen from your tree in autumn and been really puzzled about it? That's the feeling.
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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
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When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
