Joanne Rowling Quotes
Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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The design process usually starts as a fantasy, with ideas that I dream of and visualize. These ideas become a reality by bringing various ingredients together, from the lifestyle of my bride, her age and sex appeal, to the textures of the finest fabrics and embroideries that we produce in my family factories in India.
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I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
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Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.
