Joanne Rowling Quotes
If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.Joanne Rowling
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
Kami Garcia -
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
Bastian Schweinsteiger -
I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali -
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
Tariq Ali
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
Larry Wilmore -
I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I speak two languages, Body and English.
Mae West -
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
Carla Gugino -
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
Gary Locke
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'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
Larenz Tate -
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams -
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
Damien Chazelle -
My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
Rachel Kushner -
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
Wallace Stevens
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I like recording by myself wherever I can, just because then I feel like I have ultimate freedom, and I can just control whatever I want to put down. There's something about going into your own little world.
King Tuff -
Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
Walter Isaacson -
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.
Avey Tare Animal Collective -
Financial independence means the freedom to choose.
Noel John Whittaker -
If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.
Joanne Rowling