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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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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I grew up in a very small town and didn't realise till later that I had an adventurous side. When I went to theatre school at 18, I came into my own and let loose.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
