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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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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I actually think I need 'Homeland' rehab. And that Ray Donovan. I think I've watched every episode more than once. Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright and Jon Voight have made me fall in love with acting again.
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The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.
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Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges.
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Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day.
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But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.
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At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
