Joanne Rowling Quotes
I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
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Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.
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I describe my career path as a zigzag, not a ladder.
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The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.
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I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.
