Randy Harrison Quotes
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
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I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.
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I think about my family first. I want my family to not want for anything. I would like to make sure they have no worries.
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My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
