Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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Let my enemies devour each other.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I really wanted to work and become independent.
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Women know how to scare other women.
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I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
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Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.
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I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.
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There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.
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For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
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It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
