Amy B. Harris Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
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Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
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If you are squeamish Don't prod the beach rubble.
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The first person I click on can't be the right choice.
