Joanne Rowling Quotes
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
