Joanne Rowling Quotes
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.
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I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.
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I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.
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I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
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I don't believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.