Joanne Rowling Quotes
Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.

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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.
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We live in an epoch of denudation.
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I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
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Minorities give their vote to the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party has given them lip service in terms of being involved in the party and in being major players.
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Why can’t I drink the potion instead?” asked Harry desperately. “Because I am much older, much cleverer, and much less valuable,” said Dumbledore.