Joanne Harris Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.
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When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.
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We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
