Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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I am passionate about human rights.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things were all done on our behalf and they may turn out in the end to have created more terrorists.
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The way we designed self-driving payroll, it ends payroll as an independent system that you're entering information in by hand.
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Russia is emerging as an essential diplomatic and security partner for the U.S. in Syria, despite the Obama administration's opposition to Moscow's support for President Bashar al-Assad.
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When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.
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It was always hard for me to find clothes.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
