Charlaine Harris Quotes
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We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
