Joanne Rowling Quotes
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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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.
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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.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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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.
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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.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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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.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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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.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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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.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.
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They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.
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When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
