Joanne Rowling Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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Speak of the Gods as they are.
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I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me; we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
