Jaquae (James Harris) Quotes
The best gifts don’t come from under the tree. I can’t wait to meet you. Happy holidays from my son!
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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I'm not a big spender or shopper. Neither am I extravagant, nor do I have big expenses. I mainly spend on travel. I don't buy overpriced clothes, as I feel such expenses are unnecessary. I probably wouldn't buy expensive watches or jewellery either.
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I've been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.
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It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.
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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
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A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.
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I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
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I have two kids, a career, and a man that takes a lot of my attention and time.
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Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
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If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.
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I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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'Never in my life have I seen two villages on opposite banks of a river that weren't connected by a ford.'
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I certainly support civil unions.
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The best gifts don’t come from under the tree. I can’t wait to meet you. Happy holidays from my son!
