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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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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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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We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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'Never change' is the thing that probably high school students have written in each other's yearbooks for time immemorial. They think that command is possible!
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I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
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You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
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Everything is out there waiting for you. All you have to do is walk up and declare yourself in. No need for permission. You just need courage to say, 'Include me'. Providing you have the energy to pull it off you can do what you like.
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
