Joanne Harris Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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Coffee is my water now.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
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The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.
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Just taking care of yourself is a job of its own.
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I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
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I saw him show up a few times, I'll say that. He has a way of doing that.
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When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.
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I'm insatiably curious.
