Joanne Rowling Quotes

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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• I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • People
  • Other
  • Polite

• Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• Let my enemies devour each other.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Enemies
  • Other
  • Devour

• I pick up on other people's discomfort.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Up
  • Other

• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Become

• Women know how to scare other women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Know
  • Other

• I was the kid who was too geeky for the other kids.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Kids
  • Kid
  • Other

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Other

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Other

• Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Sorry
  • Without
  • Other

• Just as entrepreneurs developed America, they can develop other countries, too.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • America
  • Just
  • Other

• 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.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Husband
  • Dinner
  • Cook

• With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Oil
  • Other
  • Trading

• I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Know
  • Two
  • Other

• 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.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.

  

  Alexander Morozevich
  • Chess
  • Result
  • Prizes

• 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.

  

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
  • Racism
  • Gender
  • Feminism

• Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Someone

• I was an illegitimate, well, I still am an illegitimate child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Child
  • Well
  • Still

• God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished; but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Gift
  • Wages
  • Purchase

• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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