Joanne Harris Quotes

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Joanne Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 3, 1964

Topics

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

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When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

Jenny Lewis

NameFeelYouRightSoloYour

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

CreativeYouAliveDesireMatter

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

Mekhi Phifer

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Living in a city is stressful absent terrorism.

John Ross Bowie

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Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative.

John Sayles

FunYouKnowMessAnythingGoing

I know everybody says that their bride was the 'most beautiful in the world.' They're wrong. I win.

Steven Crowder

BeautifulWinWorldBrideWrong

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world.

Tom Hodgkinson

AnimalWorldThinkSlowLongNow

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Rob Woodall

ConstitutionSecurityOutsideNeed

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Roger Penrose

NatureBookKnowRightPointHere

Hollywood is enamored of the 20- to 30-year-old actress, but by the very nature of the life experience of the character, the roles cannot be that rich. You can only have Angelina Jolie in a mental hospital so many times.

Rod Lurie

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It's so hard to keep everything balanced in life.

Rosanna Arquette

LifeHardEverythingKeepBalanced

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