Harrison Ford Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
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In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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These pirates are evolving, and we must stay with the curve and evolve with them to stop these incidents from happening.
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Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.
