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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If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
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I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.
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I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!
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I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
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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.
