Kim Harrison Quotes
I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I got through college.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
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I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
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I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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I grew up reading SF in the '70s and '80s, and I like fast, thought-provoking plots that take you places in fully realized worlds.
