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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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
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Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.
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Certainly it is not a democracy.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
