Joanne Rowling Quotes
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
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Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.
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I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
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We are protecting Europe according to European rules that say borders can be crossed only in certain areas in a controlled way and after registration.
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I'll get in the face of anyone I think is wrong.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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A lot of people think that I'm one of the women from 'Broad City' - and I'm just not.
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With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
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Point-blank, there is not enough diversity in media.
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This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.
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Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
