Kathryn Harrison Quotes

Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.

Kathryn Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1961

Topics

TimeYouFeelingCountryTrapOnce

There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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I believe inanimate objects have a spirit.

Jeremy Irons

BelieveSpiritI BelieveObjects

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

John Paul Jones

SeaPowerGreatOceanWarMadness

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Maximilian Schell

NeverRightStageGotRolesExcept

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.

Sondre Lerche

MyselfMatterMoreSoundComeLike

To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.

Min-sik Choi

ChangeHairGrowLoseActingImage

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

YouSeeGoingEnglishSpeaking

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!

Jon Stewart

LiveHeartHellComedyYouFix

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Allen Ginsberg

PersonAlivePossibleNormalDecent

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

Allison Pearson

GoalsWomenMenBrokenVictoryNow

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

Marilyn Ferguson

FuturePastPotentialYouChoose

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

Lindsay Mendez

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