Joanne Rowling Quotes
I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.
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I feel like most creative people are total freaks.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
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There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.
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Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
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Scaring the children: for Halloween last night, I dressed as a Democrat and when kids came to my door, I took half of their candy!
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I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming to dinner, just opening the fridge and eating pudding, while you're standing there still working on the starter. It's not on.
