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.
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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.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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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.
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For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
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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.
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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.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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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.
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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.
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I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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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.
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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.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.
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There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
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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.
