Thomas Harris Quotes
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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You have a choice: Support the woman standing next to you, or compete with her. But if you compete, you're going to be miserable.
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I ended up working in Michigan for a young company called Sycor out of Michigan, worked there, and that company got bought by Northern Telecom. We became the Bell Northern Research Labs of Northern Telecom.
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Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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The spectator, we might put it, contracts by infection the characteristic disease of the actor, the attenuation of selfhood that results from impersonation.
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The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate.
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I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old... that quantum electrodynamic theory towards which Planck was heading in 1900, took fifty years to emerge.
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Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.
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After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.
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I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the wonderful rhythmical flow of lines and curves could be more subtly felt than seen. Be this as it may, I know that I can feel the heart-throbs of the ancient Greeks in their marble gods and goddesses.
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Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.
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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
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Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
