Joanne Rowling Quotes

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Business
  • City
  • Identity

• I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Clothing

• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Vision

• Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • War
  • History
  • Promise

• The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Together

• I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Film
  • Easy

• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Grow

• Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Champion
  • Train
  • Mindset

• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • Enough
  • Movies

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Even the absolute universality of the law of causality does not necessarily limit a person's freedom, because the law of causality not only enables him to explain the past and predict the future, but also encourages him to use his intelligence to create new causes and attain new results.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Past
  • Law
  • Persons

• I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Think
  • Budget
  • Even

• I want to be the best. I want to be counted on by my teammates. I want to be counted on by this organization and the fans. I want to be someone they know is going to bring it every single week. I prepare to be the best.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Single
  • Best
  • Organization

• I know the importance of family. I mean, it really completes me as a person. I want lots of children; I want so many children. I look at babies' pictures, and I am like... I love kids.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Children
  • Family
  • Kids

• Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Past
  • Way
  • Walking