Joanne Harris Quotes

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Joanne Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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LifeMeWritingWinningStartYou

I lived in Texas for 10 years.

John Hawkes

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When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks

TeenMeWritingStoryMoviesThan

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Steve Carell

LoveDayDoingTelevisionDoneJust

I don't think people truly know what I have done or that I've actually had a regular job.

Rob Kardashian

JobPeopleThinkKnowDoneActually

Life is very nice in Hawaii. I rent a place that has its own cottage so when my friends and family come to visit, they have somewhere nice to stay.

Jorge Garcia

LifeFamilyFriends And FamilyHawaii

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Dennis Washington

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Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

Dev Patel

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Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series.

Douglas McGrath

FreedomPowerThoughtInteresting

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Donna Leon

SchoolTelevisionGraduate School

Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.

Dean Wareham

LifeMusicWaitWorldYearYou

I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

Chris Squire

ChangeSongThinkBackFadeOut

I will admit I am a little bit of a line fudger. I will change the line a bit to make it feel better in my mouth. That is something they'll allow you to do on 'Veep' unless it's a particular joke where they're like, 'No, it just sounds better like this.' But with a lot of network shows, the script is law; you cannot change it all.

Brian Huskey

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