Joanne Harris Quotes

I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

Joanne Harris

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• I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Success
  • Education

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Films

• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Hate
  • Daily
  • Sick

• The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Kid

• I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

  

  Larry David
  • Feel
  • Comedian

• For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stress

• I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Want
  • Way
  • Clarity

• Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Done
  • Said
  • Follow

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Trying
  • Priority

• We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Work

• I could never resist the call of the trail.

  

  Buffalo Bill

• London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • Professional

• All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • People
  • Art
  • Alone

• The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Goal
  • Scary
  • Hook

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Father

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

  

  Joanne Harris