Joanne Harris Quotes
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
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I'm not much of a public speaker.
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As long as you're getting along, it's nice to work with someone you know well.
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I sell a lot of them at Art on Easy Street.
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When you are accustomed to winning, when you are used to winning, then afterwards you tend not to have the same level of concentration. Sometimes you go into the games thinking you have already won because you are so strong.
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I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
