Joanne Rowling Quotes
Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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With acting, I felt like I had a lot to prove because I didn't study it; I didn't work my way up in a traditional sense.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.
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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
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My objection to metre is that it enables people to write verse with no poetic inspiration.
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A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I'm just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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Farewell! if ever fondest prayerFor other's weal avail'd on high,Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.
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It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny - and it has been bitter - whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.
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Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.
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Can't is the cancer of happen.
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The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.
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People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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If I can accomplish anything in the next however-many years, it is this: To help a generation realize, or to think of themselves, not just as consumers but also creators.
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My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.
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For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and will not have to struggle. Financially, perhaps that is true; but as far as chess goes, I'm still learning a lot!
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You can't hate anybody till you hate yourself and you can't love anybody till you love yourself.
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Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.
