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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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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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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I always like to work with really good filmmakers and really good actors.
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Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.
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I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.
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Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie - 'Casablanca,' say - and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
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On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.
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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
