Joanne Rowling Quotes
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
Quotes to Explore
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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 think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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'Outlander' is filmed mostly around Glasgow and the central belt of Scotland, so it's lovely for me because I get to go up and spend time in the place that I lived for three years. I've got a bunch of friends in the cast because a lot of them studied at the same college as I did, and I get to see my family, most of whom now live in Scotland.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
