Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
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He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
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Armonía es puro amor, porque el amor es concierto.
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I'm dealing with soft targets, and it's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee.
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In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
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I much prefer STEAM to STEM. The insertion of the A is arts writ large, and when you learn how to think, that means that you actually need to understand how others have thought before you, how have others made sense of the world.
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There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.
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African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.
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I want to be an independent and responsible voice for Arizonans, and it would be unwise to endorse a specific approach before the costs and benefits of these options can be evaluated.
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You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.
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What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything.
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The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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I turned to Rafe and swam (and sunk) in his hazel eyes.
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Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.
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The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.
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There's no formula.
