Charlaine Harris Quotes
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color.
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I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
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It's good to know people think I'm a nice guy.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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My role as a chef is respecting the produce. Why should I change and mask the original flavors of the produce that I'm utilizing?
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The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.
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No one is as smart as all of us.
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Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
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I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
