Gerry Harvey Quotes
I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought - before there is any connection with logical construction in words or other kinds of signs which can be communicated to others.
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There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.
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I'll only move in with my husband. There's no question of a live-in relationship.
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.
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Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
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I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.
