Joanne Rowling Quotes

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Joanne Rowling

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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Him

• There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Decision

• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Study

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Model
  • Famous

• I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Craving

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Wish

• We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Listen

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Fame

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

  

  Michelle MacLaren
  • Interesting
  • Really
  • Graphic

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• When I first had a child, I really had a hard time trying to figure out how it was all going to fit together. Because I felt like, when I was with him, I wanted to be writing and I should be writing. And when I was writing, I felt like I should be with him, and wanted to be with him. So I was unhappy a lot.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Singing
  • Story
  • Voice

• On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Money
  • Idea
  • Tree

• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Interesting
  • Famous
  • Fame