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'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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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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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
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And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
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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.
