George V. Higgins Quotes
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
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I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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We're facing a natural disaster in the middle of an economic disaster. The federal government has to balance its budget the way our families do.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
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There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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You cannot write well without data.
