George V. Higgins Quotes
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the highest form of humor.
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I've kept to myself, I've put my head down. I've gone to work. And I have felt undervalued.
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When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.
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I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.
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Young people, especially young women, often ask me for advice. Here it is, valeat quantum. Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
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Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.
