Willis Harman Quotes
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
Quotes to Explore
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
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I'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I know there's more to life than making lots of money and being successful and even getting married and having a family.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
