Joanne Harris Quotes
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I do love pink cocktails.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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It is nothing but a kind of a microcosmos of communism - all that psychiatry', rumbled Pnin ... 'Why not leave their private sorrow to people? Is sorrow not, one asks, the only thing in the world people really possess?
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I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
