Joanne Harris Quotes

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

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• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• Leading from behind doesn't work.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Behind
  • Leading

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Son
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Children
  • Home
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Stop
  • Problem
  • Succeed

• My mum told me once I was a Hindu.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Once
  • Hindu

• 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.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Financial
  • Commitment

• 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.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Work
  • Important
  • Education

• I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• 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.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Opinion

• 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.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Novel

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Live
  • Happy

• Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Free
  • Minds
  • Would

• It's not easy starting a label and putting out your own records. It's required me at times to humble myself and really push and work hard to try to give this the best shot. I really want to share this with the world.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

  

  Eric Carle
  • Life
  • School
  • Simple

• Being fifteen is a blessing and a curse. It does bring you more attention when you’re young, and you’re doing things that grown people do.

  

  The Kid LAROI
  • Attention
  • Grown
  • Fifteen

• I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. The story turned out to be twice as long as it was supposed to be, but I was having fun. I even showed the Ranger in his 'old prospector' disguise, and I had some nice exchanges between the Ranger and Tonto.

  

  Mel Odom
  • Great
  • Long
  • Writing

• Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Live
  • Patriarchy
  • Doctrinaire

• Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

  

  Joanne Harris