Joanne Harris Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I believe when I leave this earth, because I love the Lord, I am going straight to Heaven.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
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I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.
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You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.
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Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
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Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
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I am extremely pained by the methodology adopted by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in coming to some figures which have no basis whatsoever. Their exercise was fraught with very serious errors.
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A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
