Joanne Rowling Quotes
Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
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The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
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One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic posture, the fact that we are here for Everyman, that we are indeed Everyman's university, the place where the scholar who is not college-affiliated can come and work and feel at home.
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Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.
