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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We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
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Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
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No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.
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The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole
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But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.
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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.
