Larry Harvey Quotes
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
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But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
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Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.
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I always like being a director in terms of giving acting notes and punching up on the fly.
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I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.
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It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
