Joanne Rowling Quotes
It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.
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Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
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Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'
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Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
