Harrison Ford Quotes

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

Harrison Ford

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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  • May

• When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
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• There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.

  

  Adam Hasner
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• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

  

  Jacky Ickx
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• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
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  • Inevitable

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • City
  • Proud
  • Paris

• For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
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• If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Man
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• The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
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  • Function
  • Exploration

• It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

  

  Walter Hagen
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• The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
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• Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
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• Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

  

  Saint Basil
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• This place, if I could describe this place, no place around me, there’s no end to me, I don’t know what it is, it isn’t flesh, it doesn’t end, it’s like air…

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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• For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• It's weird when people ask me, "Why are you so nice?" It's like, "Because that's just what you should do. You should be kind to people." It seems really basic, but it's amazing how many people forget that.

  

  Brad Williams
  • People
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  • Forget

• The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Working
  • Thing