Joanne Rowling Quotes
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
Joanne Rowling
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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
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
Laura Innes
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker
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I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
Carl Hiaasen
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The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'
Edmund Phelps
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Walton
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
Vaclav Klaus
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector
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Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo
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I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.
Kent McCord
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Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
Dan Savage
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That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
Joanne Rowling
