Joanne Harris Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I've been things and seen places.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.
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It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
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We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-shopping in the European Union.
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
