Joanne Harris Quotes
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
Quotes to Explore
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Heavenly Father has given us a priceless gift in our capacity to communicate with each other. Our communications are at the core of our relationships with others. If we are to return home safely to Heavenly Father, we must develop righteous relationships with His children here in mortality.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.
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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
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The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.
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The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.
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You can only lose what you cling to.
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
