Joanne Harris Quotes
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.Joanne Harris
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Gary Hamel -
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
Adam Clarke -
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski -
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
Gary Wolf -
I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
Vera Wang -
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman -
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose -
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg -
Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet -
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
Karl Radek -
A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
Laura Benanti -
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel Castro -
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.
Pamela Anderson -
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
William Cowper -
My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.
Kodi Smit-McPhee -
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
Wallis Simpson -
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
Joanne Harris