Joanne Rowling Quotes
Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
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There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
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I've lifted weights ever since I was a teenager, but I started going more towards the Olympic weightlifting style, which is clean and jerk.
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There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called 'Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You'.
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Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.
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Drink! The flies have not spoilt my vintage; the vines were dry before they came.
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
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I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
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When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.
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I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.
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I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.
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I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!
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When I start my mornings, I put some essential oils in a diffuser; it might be orange blossom or jasmine to energize and spruce me up or lavender at night to really calm me down.
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Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
