Joanne Harris Quotes
I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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Time was God's first creation.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
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The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.
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I feel naked without earrings. I'll pass out twice. It feels like I'm missing a body part.
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What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
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It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
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I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
