Joanne Rowling Quotes

Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.

Joanne Rowling

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Process
  • Editing

• I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Words

• Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Fire

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Judiciary

• All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Different
  • Man

• It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Impossible
  • Possibilities

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I think patriotism is all about wanting to see America better, wanting to see those are oppressed do better and get treated better.

  

  Nate Parker
  • America
  • Better
  • Patriotism

• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Style

• What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Government
  • Balance
  • Belief

• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Up
  • Song
  • Moments

• My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • First

• I'm just trying to do big things with my career all the time.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Career

• Fuck that! Conor McGregor, you're taking everything I've worked for, motherfucker! I'm going to fight your fucking ass!

  

  Nate Diaz

• I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Comedy
  • Variety
  • Pirate

• Look at what happened in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast when Katrina hit. People ask me whether they thought race was the reason the response was so slow. I say, 'well, no, this administration was colorblind in its incompetence.' But, everyone here knows that the disaster and the poverty happened long before the hurricane hit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Poverty

• When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.

  

  Jodi Picoult

• If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Life
  • Children
  • Hope

• Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far too low-cut." Ginny glanced round, grinning, winked at Harry, then quickly faced the front again.

  

  Joanne Rowling